Honest opinions on the following names for our baby boy

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y husband and I are expecting a baby boy later this year. We are both born and raised in London and have Turkish parents. We are thinking of giving our baby a Turksih name but only if it sounds good and is easily pronounced by non-Turkish speakers here in England.

We have gone through every potential turkish name there is and these are the only ones we really like. It would be helpful to us if you could explain why you like or dislike a name as well as we are gathering as much details as we can.

Our front runners are:

Levent (Leh-Vent)

Emre (Em-Ray/Rey)

Another two are on the list are:

Evren (Eh-Vren)

Metin (Meh-Tin)

Thank you in advance!

I like them all aside from Metin which sounds like a drug brand name.

Evren. I like Emre but sounds more like a girls name to me. Do you have a Turkish surname? I'm not sure a Turkish surname would work with a 'Smith' surname or similar

Love Emre!

I really like Emre and Evren. Metin is okay but I'm afraid I don't like Levent - maybe because I make a lot of bread and it sounds like leaven to me!

I love the first three! I don't dislike Metin but the others are nicer. All the possible shortened versions that his friends may adopt are also alright: em, ev or lev.

I like Evren best, Levent sounds too similar to Levant for me, Emre too similar to Esme and just don't like Metin. Evren is cool.

I knew a lovely Emre (Only ever met one and I live/work in central London) really lovely name and def gets my vote!

Oh no, not at all! I knew two in 12 years and the school was 40% Turkish. But it was one of my favourite names. The most common were Baris and Ali.

I knew about about 4 Cans I think.

Love Emre.

All really helpful everyone, really appreciating the feedback

GinAndOnIt, we have a turkish surname :-)

I LOVE Evren. Emre, to my ear, sounds quite feminine (I like it too though)

cosmicglittergirl, that's good to know... although turkish names are not common in england, it's still nice to have a turkish name that is not overused generally :-)

My favourite of those four names is Evren, beautiful name

Evren and Emre are particularly lovely

I have a Turkish friend that has lived in Scotland for many years. She had her 1st baby last year

She really wanted Emre. I love that name!! But as far as I know that was taken by a family member! So he was named Eray (pronounced Er-aye) he suits his name and I think it's gorgeous!

Emre is super cute

Love Emre too.

Love Evren!

Love Evren.

Love love love Evren!