If I love Nina and Maya for a girl.....what would be my son's name?

[NameTheNewGuy]

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.

[ImperialBlether]

Louis.

It's the best boy's name there is.

[Penguinotterfoxbadger]

Gosh, that's a tough brief!

Do any of these work?
For a boy..
Ash
Finn
Sammy/Sammi
Felix
Rudy
Remy
Pax

[thatsn0tmyname]

Nima?

[IvoryMadonna]

Leo

[BeezusFafoon]

Joel?

[Lewaney3]

Theo
Sonny/sunny
Rudi
:)

[squoosh]

Ferdinand (Ferdi)
Luca/s
Leon
Julius
Zane
Adam

[Bowlersarm]

Wow, that's tricky.

Asa
Nico
Lucas

I'll have a think!

[MrsAukerman]

Milo
Luca

[Sophronia]

Leo/Leon
Jay
Toby
Zane
Sam/Sami
Milan
Idris
Arlo
Rowan/Rohan/Roan
Asher
Bram
Zak/Zack
Aron
Sol
Jago
Haris/Harris
Danny/Dani
Rian
Devon/Devin
Taj
Sasha/Sacha

[BellaVida]

Lucas
Matias
Alex
Leo
Theo
Arden
Finley
Aidan
Ralph

[LineRunner]

I agree with Louis.

[NameTheNewGuy]

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 :(

[LineRunner]

Luca is not biblical, is it?

[squoosh]

Kamran?

I like your Raif and Rafi suggestions though. Shame they're out.

[NameTheNewGuy]

Linerunner, he's insisting it's from Luke so becomes part of the gang with Matthew, Mark & Co.

[squoosh]

Oh, just noticed the 'no K names' criteria!

[NameTheNewGuy]

Hard 'K' in Kamran squoosh - though it does have special meaning for me...sadly it won't fly.

I'm sorry this is such a pain!

[urbinosparrot]

Rayan

Neil

Sami

Adam

[BlueMoonRoses]

Felix
Xavier
Julian

Based on Latin names.

[urbinosparrot]

Zachary

[SocialMediaAddict]

I really like Ash.

What's your husbands choices? Have you any boys names you like?

[musicinspring1]

Noah? Sam? Ali? Was going to say Zayn.Tricky. Trying to give you names of friend's DC with similar backgrounds.

[SocialMediaAddict]

I also like Felix and Zac.

[SocialMediaAddict]

Rafferty - Rafe for short