Modern sounding Muslim baby boy names please :)

[Sleeplessemma]

Hi all,

I’ve just found out I’m having a baby boy, so I’d love some more modern sounding baby names suggestions. The reason I say modern is my family are white British so are very hostile to anything ‘too exotic’ (for want of a better phrase). My hubby’s family is quite large so a lot of names have been taken:

Already gone is zakariya, ali, Harris, kamran, zaid, zayn, zayyan, isa, musa (and about a million others)

So far we like: Deen, Aydin /Aiden and Rayan.

Any other suggestions? We already have girl named Ayah XX

My friend has an Eshan and an Elijah which pleased both her family (British Christian heritage) and his family (Pakistani Muslim).

Have you thought of Khaleel?

Abu, Rehan, Tanzim, Moe, Imran

Ammar, it means someone who brings life back to a place or a builder.
Good luck to you. I was in your position not so long ago and it's not easy to find a name that fits between the two cultures.

Samad, Sahil, Amin. It is a shame Zayn is out, I love it.

The two loveliest Muslim men I know are both called Samar! There are a couple of boys named Idris at DD's nursery, which is nice and has the idris Elba familiarity.

Kids at my DD's nursery whose names are Muslim include:
Ishaq (iss-hack not ish-ack)
Ilyas
Adam
Reshaad (there are two, one is nn Shardy which is really cute!)
Rayan
Haaris
Laith

Aiyan or Aryan? Do names need to be off the table because of family though. DC aren't from a Muslim background but from one where similarly they often name family members the same. Having a relative named something the same would be the norm

Ayaan
Ayden
Noah
Zidan

Asif?

Thanks all! A lot to think about! Unfortunately a lot of the names are already taken by either immediate family or friends children.

I saw some suggestion for Khalil, that’s taken, zafer (taken) Adam ( know someone bad memories lol) I don’t like the sound of the Islamic equivalent of Noah (Nuh) and I’d get no end of crap for using the ‘English’ name.

Our families are very similar (albeit opposite versions of each other) anything too british or ‘white’ his family would have a meltdown over same with anything too muslim for mine.

His family at first didn’t even believe Ayah was a Muslim name, they were adamant we changed it Anaya or something more Pakistani 😑

Idris
Jamal

Haroon
Harris
Omar
Samar
Sulayman

@Sleeplessemma

Thanks all! A lot to think about! Unfortunately a lot of the names are already taken by either immediate family or friends children.

I saw some suggestion for Khalil, that’s taken, zafer (taken) Adam ( know someone bad memories lol) I don’t like the sound of the Islamic equivalent of Noah (Nuh) and I’d get no end of crap for using the ‘English’ name.

Our families are very similar (albeit opposite versions of each other) anything too british or ‘white’ his family would have a meltdown over same with anything too muslim for mine.

His family at first didn’t even believe Ayah was a Muslim name, they were adamant we changed it Anaya or something more Pakistani 😑

Seriously they’ve never heard of Ayah? So what do they call Quranic verses then?

How about
Idris
Khalid
Fahim
Ismael
Yunus
Ali
Abdul

Radical thought, but could you pick a name you both like without deference to either set of grandparents?

You'll perhaps get some grief, but does it really matter that much? Just say that's the name you're going with- eventually they'll accept it.

By the sounds of it, you bent over backwards to accommodate both lots of relatives last time and neither set was happy anyway, so this time maybe save yourselves the headache?

@Puntastic

By the sounds of it, you bent over backwards to accommodate both lots of relatives last time and neither set was happy anyway, so this time maybe save yourselves the headache?

This

Idris
Sami
Saif (pronounced similar to Seth)
Zaki

Yassin

DS1 is at school with
Yaqub, Ayan, Zaydan.

They're only 4/5 so assume fairly modern names as not the Muslim names in the generation that I grew up with Yusuf/Ali/Adnan etc.

Malek
Omar

I like Mica best. Kamarl is good too.

We named our boy Aayan

Ex h has a nephew called Dilshad, I always think it's so lovely as it means happy heart.

I also love
Kaan
Anouar/Anwar.
Jamil
Kamran
Sami

Love the names you've picked out but don't try and please the families, please yourselves. If there's one particular name you both like then go for it.

They got their heads round you both marrying each other, they'll get over any name too.

Ben?

We had a baby boy recently and struggled to find a name. We finally agreed on Izhaan (pronounced iz-aan or Iz-an by our English friends)