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I love the name. I just love it. I think it sounds very handsome, sweet, and sophisticated. I hate Marty though. I would just constantly correct anyone who called him Marty that his name was Martin.

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The only thing that stops me from using this name, is that in my accent, or where I am, everyone taps their t's and often turn them into a d sound. Meaning, that names like Patty, Catalina, and Natalie, all come out sounding like Paddy, Cadalina, and Nadalie. They also put glutteral stops in names in replace for a letter. I hate this, and it's my pet peeve to hear people say the name Martin more like "MAR(glutteral stop/tapped t)-un" I'd constantly be wanting to correct them and say "No, it's mar-TIN"

I LOVE Martin. It's in my top few for boys. I don't think Marty automatically comes to mind, and it would be easy enough to avoid. I've only known one Martin in my life, but he just went by Martin.

I actually do like Martin. I don't think I would ever use it, though but if I did it would be as a middle name. I have known a few Martin's and no one ever called them Marty.

I like it a quite a bit, too. I don't know about the nn Marty... I dislike it, too, so I wouldn't use it. I don't really think people wold automatically use it, and you could always correct them if they did.

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I personally like it because of Martin the Warrior, a key character in Brian Jacques' Redwall series. Because of this, I would probably use it in a sibset with Luke, Matthias and/or Mariel (other Redwall characters with usable names).

My brother is called Martin Johannes. I think it's an okay name, but nothing special. He never got the "Marty" thing, but then, that nickname isn't commonly used here.