Baby name
Martha
/MAR · thah/
Meaning
“Mistress or lady of the house”
From Aramaic Marta meaning 'mistress' or 'lady of the house', the busy sister in the New Testament story.
How it ages.
Biblical warmth with a homey, grounded quality, timeless in a quietly beautiful way.
The cultural moment.
Reviving steadily in the UK and US; part of the wave of overlooked biblical names coming back.