Help please! English sounding muslim boy name!

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Hi everyone! We are very confused about our boy name. He wants to change his name Osama because he suffered alot with that name and now he is confused about these names :

Zayn
Zayan
Rayan

Can anyone suggest any more?

Ayman
Zahran
Rehan
Adam
Zakariah
Haaris
Ayaan
Mikaeel
Faisal

Idris? It's Muslim and it's also Welsh!

Samir, nn Sam?

My Muslim friend has a Dani.

Ayman? Sami? Yusuf is very easy to say for English people. Raieef - might have trouble at first but it's quite like Rafe really.

Perhaps your son would like to have a Muslim (Arabic) name that translates easily into English? That way, he could have both Arabic and English versions to use according to context, as he chooses?

For example, Adam, Abraham, Moses, Joseph, Jacob, Noah, David, Solomon, Isaac, Jonah are all English versions of names mentioned in the Qur'an, and they are all very well-known names in the UK.

This list gives some Arabic and English equivalents:
[[http://www.iqra.net/articles/muslims/prophets.php]
There will be many others, I am sure.

Mmm all the names you guys mentioned are pretty good but i'm still confused ..

@Mmmango Hey! No sameer its pretty similiar..

Rehan and Rayan its the same ?

What do you think of the three names i wrote, which is the best in your personal opinion?

Zayn can be writter either "Zain" or "Zayn" ? which is better?

@florascotia no my son want an arabic muslim name ... that is easy to pronunce in UK!

Thanks :D

I'm really sorry to hear your boy has had trouble because of his name - that really isn't fair on him, and I wish people knew better than to do that.

Of the ones you listed, I like "Zain" as a spelling.

Zacharia is a great Arabic name and Zac/Zacky is a popular UK name.

Ali? Short for Alistair in UK but also a classic Muslim name.

I'd go for the Zayn spelling, it is well known because of Zayn Malik.

I would spell it Zain, because of Zayn Malik!

Zain's good, as are Zak/Zaki, Rafi, Daniyal, Sikander (Xander/Alexander), Ali (Al). I think Tariq works really well too.

What about Omar? Close enough to his original name, but a new name.

that's a shame about your sons name as it is such a lovely name. I think all the ones I know have been mentioned, Adam and Haaris, or Sami could easily be either.

how about Aden?

Danyaal? I teach a boy with this name and it's shortened to Danny.

Bassam, nn Sam/Sammi

Zein/Zayn is a girl's name!

Zeid is the boy's version.

My favourite Arabic boy's name is Hani

The rest of the internet seems to think it's a boys name (based on a quick Google at least [Grin] ).

Oooh, NeedADiscoNap, I love the name "Danyaal".

Well not in the Muslim country I live in and where the royals have plenty of Queen Zeins and Princess Zeins and only a Prince Zeid

OP - ah! Now I see; sorry for confusion.

The following are easy to say:

Amal, Faris, Salman, Rabi (Rabbie or Rab are popular short forms of Robert in Scotland), Zaki, Malik, Samir, Hadi, Karim. Imran is also simple - and well-known because of the cricketer.

Guys i appreciate your answers and i liked your names.. but we have talked in our family and now we are confused about these ones:

RAYAN

ZAYAN

Any suggestion ?

For living in the UK which would be easy to pronounce and at the same time a nice name ?

I'm scared that people make a joke on him by saying "Ryanair" or something else...

Zayan is better?

They are both lovely - but a heads-up, if he's called Rayan, he will be called "Ryan" by many people, as that's a much more common name to many English-speakers. That may be a feature or a bug to you, I don't know.