Martha or Emma?

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Which of these do you prefer and why? I love both and am being (typically!) indecisive!

Sorry. I appear to have gone message crazy!!

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This baby name thing is so hard!

Emma. Martha is so dowdy.

Martha is lovely and not overused.

I prefer Emma to Martha- Emma is a lovely classic name, Martha seems a bit faddy ATM. I love Annabel though fabulous name

Emma Martha Florence would work beautifully!

Martha. Tom Waits. Job done

Emma.

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Emma Martha Florence sounds perfect!

Santas have you never liked it? Can you say why?

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Emma Martha Florence is lovely! And you are right, 2 middle names would solve the issue of EFC. Our other 2 DCs only have one middle name each though. Would it be unfair to give this one two middle names?! DH seemed to think so. We have 2 DSs, so it would mean doing something different for a girl. Having said that, surely this one is likely to be a boy too, so all this agonising could well be pointless!!

Emma Martha Florence is lovely! And you are right, 2 middle names would solve the issue of EFC. Our other 2 DCs only have one middle name each though. Would it be unfair to give this one two middle names?! DH seemed to think so. We have 2 DSs, so it would mean doing something different for a girl. Having said that, surely this one is likely to be a boy too, so all this agonising could well be pointless!!

Emma Martha Florence is lovely! And you are right, 2 middle names would solve the issue of EFC. Our other 2 DCs only have one middle name each though. Would it be unfair to give this one two middle names?! DH seemed to think so. We have 2 DSs, so it would mean doing something different for a girl. Having said that, surely this one is likely to be a boy too, so all this agonising could well be pointless!!

Emma definitely

I really like both.

I'd never even considered Martha as a name until OBEM the other week when one of the women giving birth was called Martha and I was instantly drawn to it.

So I'd vote Martha.

Emma is a gorgeous, classic name. I like Martha and know two very sweet ones but I personally think Emma is timeless.

Martha Emma was my grandmother's name. She didn't like Martha and was known as Emma. It is a nice name though... You could always call her Martha Florence Emma (or whatever) then choose one to call her which you prefer.

To avoid the EFC I mean...

Hi. I didn't have particular feeling about it when I was younger, but I don't like it at all as an adult. It's just quite boring & always shortened to Em, which I can't stand! I'd rather have a name with either more options for shortening (nice ones!) or something more interesting.

Ratqueen that is funny that your grandma was Martha Emma!

I do like the combination of Martha, Florence and Emma all together, but not sure DH will agree to 2 middle names when the boys only have one each....He has no middle name and his sisters do. I suspect this has always felt a bit odd to him!

I did start to wonder about Florence Emma to avoid EFC, but realised this gives us FEC, which is potentially worse!

Thanks to everyone for comments and suggestions, it does help even if I seem as indecisive as ever!

Thanks also santas for saying why you don't like Emma. It seems such a shame to shorten such a lovely name to Em.

Love Martha.

I love Emma!

Definitely Emma.