If I love Nina and Maya for a girl.....what would be my son's name?
(75 Posts)DH is from a Catholic background, I'm from a Muslim one. Both atheist.
DH is as British as it gets whereas I'm a wandering subcontinental.
Now we're having a baby boy and just cannot agree on a name!
Please help!
Combining (some) parts of our ridiculous lists of desirable features, we would prefer:
- nothing overtly affiliated with Abrahamic religions in general
- something that does pass with folks from my background as well as his, like Nina or Maya would for a girl
- nothing with any 'hard' sounds like 'K'
- something short
- nothing clearly aligned with being British/American/European/Western nor Muslim/Indian/Pakistani/Bangladeshi
Ideally a name that 'passes' internationally where you'd have to meet the person before being remotely able to box him into an ethnicity.
I really liked Rafi but DH has vetoed 
And I'm just blank after that.
Louis.
It's the best boy's name there is. 
Theo
Sonny/sunny
Rudi
Most of them just sound so Western to my ears, they're lovely but I can't relate very much. It bothers me because I feel I'll have given up culture, country, last name etc - at least I could get an honourable mention with baby name, so to speak. DH disagrees btw and keeps slipping in Williams and Olivers!
In spite of that I do like Luca/Lucas (but DH says it's too Biblical), Aidan sounds sweet but DH is meh. Zain/Zane/Zayn is nice, though I don't care for a boy-band affiliation but DH doesn't care for it.
I thought Raif was nice (like the Saudi blogger, my heart goes out to him!) - but DH isn't going for it either.
Poor nameless offspring
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