Arabic names?

[Swazzee]

My husband is Arabic, and we've agreed to go with Arabic names for our twins (due December). Don't know the sexes yet, but anyone got any nice name ideas for either sex?

I'd quite like something which could sound British, or could be shortened to sound British...

hmmm, my exh is arabic,

Fatina
Rehab (shorten to Ruby)
Malak
Lila (means Moon!)

Farouk
Basel
Samir/Amir/Samer/Amer

any good for you (will try to think through the names of his family as well)

Good luck

Haroun is my fave for a boy

Knew a Samara at college

Thanks Cheese. I like Lila - hadn't heard of that before, and have always been keen on Samir anyway.

Champagne, Samara is nice. Not sure about Haroun though - but it may grow on me!

Evivah is pretty (not sure of the spelling)

Girl -

Laila, Maya, Yasmin, Mariam

Boy -

Zahir, Omar, Malik, Ali

Boysname -

Danyal??

Boys

Zaid, Laith, Jude, Sami, Danny, Rayan (Ryan), Zane, Basil, Karim, Bilal (shorten to Billy), Dean, Adam

Girls

Maya, Mariam, Mina, Alisha, Nadine, Mona, Dina, Nadia, Sara, Layla, Samara, Summer, May, Hanna

Nora, Salma, Hala, Maria, Safia, Safa, Jannah, Lulu, Layla, Zara, Ayah, Leena, Amani, Fayrouz (like fay rose kinda), Sawsan (susan), Farah, Samia, Tamara..

Ashraf (Ash), Luqman (Luke?), Layth, Rafi, Nooh (Noah), Salman, Zaki, Zakaria, Ilias/Elias, Idrees (aparently its also a welsh name so i heard? ), Ali, Sami, Sabri..

I love the name Reem for a girl.

I have 2 friends with tunisian husbands. They have:

Nadia
Yasmine

Very interchangeable between english and arabic i think.

Ameera
Yousef

One of the husbands is called Ethem- which i quite like. Also Athem is a friend of theirs. (Not sure if you spell it like that, but that's what it sounds like.

My favourite by far though was a girl i taught in college- Ankita.

Laila, Sara, Zahara, Naima, Zaina, Aliyah, Amira, Merieme.

Zaccariya, Ali, Haris, Bilal (Billy), and my own DS is called Anwar

i am boringly anglo-saxon, but my name is Zara

which means flowers or dawn. it took me a while but i do like my name now. congratulations and good luck

Twins, lucky you!

We have a Meriem. Clearly everyone says loudly, SORRY MARIAN? WAS IT MARRIAN THAT YOU SAID? but I just get used to it.

Zane, Hassan, Ferris, Adam for boys

Amira, Safia (Could become Sofia) Nadia, Yasmin/a Layla, Sheharazade

Good luck!

Wow, thanks everyone. So many suggestions and definitely some in there I'd not heard before and really like. We'd already been considering Adem for a boy, so am happy to see Adam mentioned a few times. I really like a lot of the names beginning with Z too.

We're having a scan next week (I'll be nearly 22 weeks then) and hopefully will be able to find out then whether they're boys or girls, or one of each!

boys - Sami, Rami, Ali, Mutaib, Bassam, Sayeed,

girls - Layla, Noor, Miriam and my favourite Kalila (that was going to be DC4s name but he was a boy)

Good luck with your scan, keep us posted

My little Algerian/Egyptian cousins are Adam and Hana - cute!

Good luck with your scan, how exciting!

Girls siba hiba Hana

Hanna, Sana, Adem.

Thanks for all your suggestions, but it looks like I'll have to discard all the girls' names now - the scan showed they're both boys!

My two favourite names so far are Adem and Rafi...

Adham

congrats, 2 boys will be fun
Adem and Rafi are both nice

I saw a girls name I loved, and it derives from Arabic - Jessamy (jasime flower). Also a friend had a baby recently with her hubby who's Lebanese - opted for Yasmina.

I also like Rafik for boy (not sure of spelling)

(I live in Damascus by the way)

Malaïka and Dounia
No hesitation, I am expecting a girl for december and Malaïka is at the top of our list.
for boy
Farouk