thoughts on martha please

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What do you think of the name Martha?

Becoming common...

Really like it, but it is becoming quite popular if that bothers you.

i like it

i know one

Hmm, Martha in the Bible puts me off tbh. Doesn't she run round like a little servant being all martyrish when Jesus visits, and then have a rant at ther sister for being a lazy fecker just listening to him instead of washing up?

Love it. It sounds kind of American to me - I imagine home baking and handmade quilts. In a good way.

I know several

popular but quite nice

i like the name.

BoF: i always thought she had a good point in that though: the emphasis in those times was for women to spend all their time looking after men's needs, so she was only doing that.
but i bet jesus didn't think that he would help with washing up later when he'd finished the story.

I really like it, had we had a girl she would have been Martha.
Sounds gutsy/spirited to me...

meek and domestic

I love it, but it is common as in used a lot.

I have a Martha - she's an adult now but as a little girl there was a confusing phase where she found it difficult to say her name (along with a couple of her friends) and so for a while she was Arthur to some.

I have a Martha - she's an adult now but as a little girl there was a confusing phase where she found it difficult to say her name (along with a couple of her friends) and so for a while she was Arthur to some.

I love Martha, it just has a lovely sound to it and is a great grown-up name too. Feminine without being sickly sweet like a lot of girls' names. You can imagine Martha being a ballerina or a high court judge.

It's not too try-hard either - IMO good taste always trumps a burning desire to prove your fascinating originality!

Love it

Only if your surname is not Phucker.

LOVE IT!

It's a little fusty and homely for my tastes, but I certainly don't dislike it

I tried to talk DH into Martha for this bump, but he's having none of it.
I really like it, and it is becoming popular.
LOL at disenchanted

know one martha in year 2.
thats it

so not terribly 'common' or 'popular' unlessthe little martha's aren't yet school age!

It's beautiful, sounds lovely but oh it's popular now. Which is because it's beautiful obviously but a consideration maybe.

It's all right. Part of the new holy trinity of Ms. Martha-Mathilda-Madeleine (although the latter seems to have fallen from favour for mawkish reasons)

Such a gorgeous name, my all-time fave. It is becoming more popular, but that said it was still only ranked 81 last year, so hardly up there with the Rubys and Olivias.

I think it's very pretty.

It's a good name. Pretty without being middle class twee and boring. Don't see how it can be so very common given its place in the rankings.

Lovely