Martha?

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What do you think of this for a baby?

I have a ten year old Martha and I love her name even more today than I did when we gave it to her. It is easy to spell and pronounce (although she was Marfa to her friends for a while as a toddler, which was very sweet) and it is elegant for an adult. It is moderately popular and there is one other in her primary school.

I have been previously told on MN that it is a dowdy Victorian servant's name . In real life we get lots of compliments on her name. The only reason I wouldn't have used it would have been if we were still living in an area where 'th' is routinely pronounced 'f' in the regional accent; Marfa is sweet from toddlers but it would have grated on me from everyone else.

Love it! I considered it but have a Pippa instead

I love it

Love

ADORE IT!! One of my favourites - love it so much

@PlumsInTheIcebox your daughter has a beautiful name.

Love it, really sweet and under used x

Love it!

absolutely love it. So sweet and pretty!

Love this name too! X

Love it

It’s my favourite girl’s name ever and my 7 yo DD’s name. It’s fairly common around here but I don’t mind (and neither does she). DD was named after the Tom Waits song, but she prefers Martha My Dear by the Beatles (yes, she knows it’s about a dog!)

One of my favourite names. Love it

Also if you look at the statistics, popularity has been falling over the past few years so it's not about to boom, it's actually doing the opposite!

Great choice @Mrsfrumble I've never met one but have my eye on this name for future

Love it! Especially like the nickname Moss for Martha. Lots of them in my family tree, but unfortunately our surname didn’t work at all for either Martha or Moss (made at least one, if not both, comical) so didn’t use it, but have an Esther instead, which I think has a similar flavour.

@Mrsfrumble Tom Waits was a partial inspiration for us too! The BBC drama Silk started when our Martha was a baby and I have really fond memories of watching Maxine Peake's character, who was a whip-smart, tough Martha.

I’m not keen. It’s quite dated to me. I know several in their very late teens and early 20s. I think it’s dowdy too - sorry!

I wanted Martha for my now 9 year old but my husband said no - I absolutely adore it.

I know a couple of baby Marthas and it's cute on them

I LOVE Martha, it's such a lovely name.

Love love love it

Ex said no so we had a Darcey 😭

Beautiful

Absolutely love, love, love it. Although, I will say it was one of my grandmother's names and when I was a child, I thought she had a dreadful name (she was a lovely Granny, though!). I'm not sure when my opinion of it changed!!

I have a 10 year old Martha - she absolutely loves her name, as do I. We don't know any others. It's an elegant, classic name I think

I have a 15 year old Martha. Still think it's a lovely name.

You mean for a person?

Yes, lovely.