arabic boys names

[rosiedays]

hi, I need to find an arabic boys name that i like and everyone here can SAY. At the moment DH and i just roll around laughing at all his Abdulla/Amed/Osama/Hamdi/Mustafa/ sugestions!!!! I need to find something that will work here and in the Middle East!!
I liked Ali but there are 3 under 5's in his family called Ali.
We're not very religious but DH would not even concider anything but an arabic name, ( baby will have all his names as is traditional)

any Ideas?

Jamil...

My family are all Arabic blood so it literally runs in the family

I have a Sami which I obviously love, but also top in the running were Isa, Rafi and Idris

I like:
'Farouq' or 'Faruk'.
Taofiq
Mosin

Adam and Haris spring to mind as cross cultural, or Zakariya which can be shortened to Zaki

Based on family/friends, some reasonably cross-cultural names might be:

Iskander (i.e. Alexander)
Sami (Sam)
Hanny/Hani
Rafik (could have the nn Rafi?)
Samir
Magdi/Magdy

I assume your DH is a Muslim? I can think of a few other names, but some of them might be too "Christian", iyswim? For example, we also have a Girgis (George) and a Youeel (Joel) in our family, but I'm not sure if those names are also used by Muslims?

Kuzey ("North") is Turkish, not Arabic nor even remotely religious. Eamon is Gaelic, I think.

Just thought: other (Middle Eastern) family and friends have "Frenchified" names like Henri, Charles, Alfred (!), Natalie, Virginie, Suzanne... but these are probably not "Arabic" enough for your DH

Elias

sleepcrisis has got it down, love all those names, they are perfect. My son has Idris but that's because it's also Welsh

Eesa
Rayan
Ryhan
Hanif
sami

What are your girl name ideas?

Malik?

Eamon is just another way of spelling Aymen, which is an Arabic name

Adil (Ard-l)
Hanif
Mussa
Idris
Saiful
Hilal
Are all names of the boys in DDs class (Malaysia)

How about:

Tariq
Yusuf

?

Hi,
you can check out
www.arabicenglishbabynames.com

it lists all the names that work in both cultures. Good luck!