I'm supposed to be working right now, but no supervisors in clinic today, so I am totally gonna BS today! Yay for me! Anywho......just for sh!ts and giggles, thought I'd see what everyone would name a boy and girl if you ever had a child with your SO. Here's mine.....

Boy: Mazin or Abdulrahman
Girl: Zaynab or Jennah

I vote for Mazin for the boy because too many people will have trouble with Abdulrahman
and Im on the fence with the girl names, but im leaning towards Jenna

are you going to get to work on this as soon as hubby comes home?!?

wow we having interview in the same day lol
my son's name is : Nadir

Nadir is a very good name. My son's name is Tariq.

Sinad, yep looks like same day! It for my hubby though....not me.

Lisa, we will certainly work on making babies as soon as he gets here although whether we actually have a baby or not is in God's hands

Anyhow c'mon folks.....baby names, I wanna hear 'em!

same choice selection from me for same reasons.

Mazin would be my choice. It's actually one of my most fave Arabic names, currently. Not sure about a girl name. I guess out of the two you listed I'd choose Zaynab.

I like the name Zaid for a boy and Jennah for a girl. Tho it will never happen that would be my choice.

I like Adam Michael or Omar Michael for a son

and for a girl I like Hanaa Yasmeen (arabic) or Hanna Yesmina (hebrew)

Definitely going to incorporate hebrew and arabic names when the time comes.

Alot great names ... ideas for me fo number 3!

My 1st child is Faiza Jazmin
2nd youcef Adam
3rd enchallah will be either Cherifa Meriem or IbrahimGabreel but I have many fav names ...

Sharifah is a good name, hee hee, since it's my name

Of course I like the name Zaid. However he was suppose to be Zane which I like as well. Other names for boys I like are

Yamin
Yazin
Omar
Zak
Adam

for girls I like

Muna
Amirah
Leena
Damiana

I'm so not sharing my real faves (except Mazin cuz it was a choice). I don't want none of y'all to take it. J/K Anyhoo...middle name would be Mohamed Abderrazek for a boy or a girl at any rate. I'm traditional like that.

Hubby has made it clear that he is naming the child.

I have no problem with an Arabic name if it isn't too hard to pronounce

I myself would like a combo of arabic/american....like first/middle name.

so far his ideas:

Malak......means angel (girl)

Nizar (Nazar)....spelling I am not sure (boy)


I like Niko (kneeko)....boy....that has been pretty much ruled out

Honestly I don't know
we did a run down at one time and all my arabic choices he didn't like

finger crosts !!

i like Ismail too , actually i love it , we wanted to call nadir , ismail but we thought its gonna be hard for pronociation in US no ?

Not difficult, it's pronounced pretty much how it's written. Of course, some dumbasses would say Ishmail instead.

guilty of being a dumbass

Well there is Ishmail and Ismail. Most Arabs are Ismails. I do think most Westerners assume it's Ishmail because of the Bible but if it's written on a paper or verbally told to you as Ismail then there's no excuse for the mistake.

I dated a cuban guy for a few years named Ismael (iz-meye-el). No one really messed up his full name, but nearly everyone called him "Ish".

Rrrr, Jannah is the name of our (future inshaAllah) daughter We called dibs on it in, like, 2003. It was Mom'en and Jannah.

Other names:

Rabia (as in al-Adawiyya), Tasneem (for the fountain in Paradise) for a girl

Salah (as in Salahuh Deen) for a boy

If I knew I were having 4 boys, I'd name em Abu Bakr, Uthman, Umar and Ali. But I'm thinking after 2 or 3 I'll have had enough.

There's a vj member whose daughter's name is my fave girl name and if I ever have another child and it's a girl I'd ask if I they mind that I use it. My husband loves the name Yasmeen because of his niece but two Yasmeens are not necessary in the immediate family. I like the name but it's overkill for the family.

Speaking of overkill....can we say, Ahmed? I always told myself I would never marry anyone named Ahmed or Mohamed (I've got like 6 of 'em in my family alone). Well see what I went and did, I married an Ahmed and inshaAllah if we have kids, I'll have to give them the name Ahmed too since we are Muslims and of course sticking to islamic tradition of giving the child the fathers name as their middle name.

Everyone seems to love the name Omar too. To many people have that name that name -- including me, my son's middle name is after his dad's chosen Muslim name of Omar. And speaking of not saying names right, no one ever say Omar right. It's more like Umm-mar.

I don't see middle names as overkill since if there are 5 kids then of course 5 of whatever the dad's name is. My husband is a Mohamed and there are a bunch of those in the family. There are a few Suhanda, too. I would want a somewhat original name or rarely used name in the family to go along with the Mohamed.

I just thought of my own name, many people SOOOOOO butcher it! I can't tell ya how many times I've been called Share-eef-ahh! My poor boy suffers from it too. People call him, Ta-reek, but it's really pronounced Tar-rick. Oh the joys of Middle Eastern names

Oh and UmmS, I've had the name Jennah chosen for a future daughter since I was like 12 years old. We are talking over 20 years ago! Anywho, it can't hurt to have more then one Jennah in the world since it's such a beautiful name.

Yeah the names do get butchered...Tareek, Kalid (instead of Khalid), Kalil (instead of Khalil), etc. My son's name is Zayd but ppl are constantly saying Zayed. There's no "e" in his name! Mohamed is always being called Moe-ham-ed.

Girl:
Layla
Amina


Boy:
Mehdi
Omar
Yaseen
Amine

Girl:

Nour/Noor
Rania
Dalia

Boy:

Zain
Ziad
Eyad/Eiad

Jennah is one of my gf's daughters names and when she was naming her she had asked people on fb for feedback and 3 seperate folks (American no Arab connections and two women) said it reminded them of Jenna Jamesson ... SO HECK NO to that name ever. Oh well...

Well Annie since you put it that way I'd have a hard time naming a Muslim daughter Jennah, lol. It's an ok name but too "American" sounding for my taste. Plus, ppl would pronounce it Jenna.

My sister inlaw had a baby boy and his name is Sayf I just love it cus it is differnt.
My rule always was I carry the baby for 9 mo I get to name it.

boys name Ali Ahmed Samy

girl we havent decided yet
Ahmed likes Sarah Rose
I like Abbyrose

Hmmm.....okay so...UmmS you can have that name It's true, people wouldn't say it right anyways. Geez, twenty years of loving a name got changed with a quickness!

So now it's down to Zaynab. Hmm...whatelse, I really like the name Amal (again people would NOT say this right), that was my MIL's name, but Ahmed told me we can't have that name because he wouldn't want to yell at someone with his mother's name

So that means Zaynab or Layla (<--Ahmed likes this name) are in and Jennah is out! Oh and Ahmed informed me that if we are blessed with a boy, he wants to name it Fathi.....no offence to anyone with that name, BUT let's just say Ahmed will NOT be naming our boy child

Ditto that Y's_habibitk! I like Mazin and Jennah! Both are very nice!!

Ohh no one said my favorite yet! First my boys: Mikhail Alexander (spelled Mik'aeel in the ME and Khalil Ibrahim - my MIL chose - however I also liked:

Boys:
Laith
Tahir
Tariq

Girls:

Kenza Jolie- this was going to be Khalil's name if he was a girl (my mom's nameis Julie) (if inshallah we have a girl one day but probably not this IS her name!)
Amera
Arrabella (not Arabic but always wanted that name)

if ayah had been a boy, she would have been called idriss. i'm also partial to the name eman for a baby girl. very fond of zainab as well (that's my preferred spelling of it.)

umm...i actually met a little girl named tasneem today. she was a little sweetheart!

Oh! I love that...what a sweet name.



That's the problem I think...how people will "think" its pronounced. Ughhh..oh well no matter what we have had issues too. Zain and Nour both have had their names messed up and I thought those were simple enough. LOL

since hubby's arrival he gets Ta-reek too

Actually, this is a subject we've been discussing a lot lately, because we found out there is another MenaWeed on the way, inshaAllah We have been debating it a lot, because Ahmed really wants a name that goes both ways in English and Arabic without being translated. So far we've come up with:

Girls:
Layla, Maryam, Maia, Arwa, Nourai, and a few others I can't recall right now...

Boys:
Aiman, Amir, Adham (He really likes this one, me not so much), Amar (he doesn't like this, because he says it's not Arabic... Umm, hello, the Imam on Little Mosque on the Prairie! ) I don't know how we got stuck on so many A names.

That's awesome! Congrats to you and your family!! May God bless you always!

Thank you! We are very excited And a little nervous, on my part, since I still have to finish this last year of nursing school...

Congrats!!!

Take your time .... you will "just know" when you find that perfect name. I had several in mind and when the twins were born...we just "knew" that the names were perfect. Nour's eyes were bright and wide open she was my light! and Zain well his yelling crying squishy face was so beautiful (handsome) when he was comfy, calm and close to my chest...so the meaning of their names fit them.

agreed! I tried to explain to A that even if we chose a name now, that once we meet the little guy/girl, it could seem like the completely wrong name. He had no idea what I was talking about and told me a name is a name Having had a child before, though, I know that a name is definitely NOT just a name... I can't imagine my daughter being anything but Abigail, and I knew that when I saw her for the first time But he is the type that wants to get everything settled and set it stone, which I don't blame him for. But I reserve the right to change names up until the last minute The name that I REALLY wanted was Sofia, even though it's become super popular, but he says it would be a weird name in Egypt.

Congrats Amy!

I forgot to mention I love the name Ayah, but we already got one in the family, same with Sophia...

That's because you brought your "A" game. Congratulations on your upcoming birth. I can't think of too many Arabic/English names. Better to go with nicknames sometimes but some names need no translation. Shakeel (Shaquille) or Shakira. Jamila becomes Mila. Zubear becomes Bear (mention the name Bear to anyone in Alabama and watch the reaction). Musa becomes Moose. Suleiman becomes Sully or Manny. Zakariyya becomes Zak or Zack. Yah-Yah becomes Y A (as in Y.A. Tittle) Adil was a name used on the Simpsons and who can forget Sideshow Rahim, so I guess it just depends. Bearing a Muslim or Arabic sounding name is coming back into vogue again. Hud is a name that people will associate with the famous movie from 1963 not the prophet. Malik is either King or Master depending on how you pronounce it. The first round draft pick of the Toronto Maple Leafs is a Muslim by the name of Nasim Kadri. Who really cares what your name is, it's the niyya that matters isn't it?

A good Egyptian name, what was he planning on naming her, Gamal Abdel Nasser. Sophia is a great name. I may be biased but it is a great name.

We had a hard time agreeing on a name. I think girls' names would have been easier. Wadi insisted on an Arabic/Moroccan name, and I insisted on a name that would work with my American family as well. The choices were limited - basically I had a short list of Arabic names that I thought would work and he chose Adam from those. However, I don't think that Adam is even on the official list of acceptable Moroccan names, so we might have problems in the future, but I guess we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

Boy: Gabriel, Nigel, or Julian

Girl: Rosemary or Rose

oh nice! ... Gabriel...I'm a huge Heroes fan.

I pushed hard for Sylar, but that got vetoed.

Really, why?


What about Hiro?

Grrr! Men!

No idea. I've never seen this list though - only heard through the grapevine.