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

74 replies

NameTheNewGuy · 08/04/2015 16:12

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.

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ImperialBlether · 08/04/2015 16:14

Louis.

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

Penguinotterfoxbadger · 08/04/2015 16:51

Gosh, that's a tough brief!

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

thatsn0tmyname · 08/04/2015 16:53

Nima?

IvoryMadonna · 08/04/2015 17:12

Leo

BeezusFafoon · 08/04/2015 17:21

Joel?

Lewaney3 · 08/04/2015 17:25

Theo
Sonny/sunny
Rudi
:)

squoosh · 08/04/2015 17:28

Ferdinand (Ferdi)
Luca/s
Leon
Julius
Zane
Adam

Bowlersarm · 08/04/2015 17:28

Wow, that's tricky.

Asa
Nico
Lucas

I'll have a think!

MrsAukerman · 08/04/2015 17:30

Milo
Luca

Sophronia · 08/04/2015 17:33

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 · 08/04/2015 17:35

Lucas
Matias
Alex
Leo
Theo
Arden
Finley
Aidan
Ralph

LineRunner · 08/04/2015 17:38

I agree with Louis.

NameTheNewGuy · 08/04/2015 18:03

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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LineRunner · 08/04/2015 18:09

Luca is not biblical, is it?

squoosh · 08/04/2015 18:11

Kamran?

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

NameTheNewGuy · 08/04/2015 18:11

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

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squoosh · 08/04/2015 18:11

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

NameTheNewGuy · 08/04/2015 18:14

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!

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urbinosparrot · 08/04/2015 18:21

Rayan

Neil

Sami

Adam

BlueMoonRoses · 08/04/2015 18:23

Felix
Xavier
Julian

Based on Latin names.

urbinosparrot · 08/04/2015 18:23

Zachary

SocialMediaAddict · 08/04/2015 18:23

I really like Ash.

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

musicinspring1 · 08/04/2015 18:24

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

SocialMediaAddict · 08/04/2015 18:25

I also like Felix and Zac.

SocialMediaAddict · 08/04/2015 18:26

Rafferty - Rafe for short