How popular is Martha?

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Just wondering how common it is currently and general opinions of it as a name please.
Also what, if anything have you heard it shortened to?
If we like Martha what other names might we like? TIA

I know 3, all 5 years and under.

Thanks so much for all the replies! For some reason I couldn't find the ONS list so that's really helpful too, thank you. Great to hear it's generally liked, definitely on our shortlist now, thank you all 😍

I know LOTS! Nice name tho

I really like it and don't know any Martha's

It’s dd’s middle name, so I love it.

Interesting how many pp saying their husband’s hated it- same situation here but DH didn’t have a leg to stand on after watching me give birth so I got my way 😂

I only know one Martha, she's 7. I liked it for dd but it doesn't go well with our surname.

I'm in the minority here, I find Martha really dreary & dowdy.

It's along the same lines as Ellen, Nancy & Edith to me. On the plus side, at least it's not cutesy.

I only know one, she's in her 20s.

There were two in my NCT group of 8 now six years old. More popular in some areas than others

Lovely name.

I know of two but quite tenuously (friend of a friend’s baby etc). It’s a lovely name.

I think of Mabel as in a similar vein.