Muslim boy names- help me please

[Sleeplessem]

I think I posted about this before, but I’m nearly 36 weeks and we still have no names, so MN to the rescue! So to set the scene, I’m white brit and dh is brit pakistani. V large extended family on dh side means all the names id choose from the big book of Muslim baby names are gone (Zachariah, Haris, shoaib, kamran, Adam, Ali, layth, zayan, Ismail, ayan etc)

People keep on crapping on the names we / I do like. None of DH know we’re having a boy but they’ve crapped on them in passing. They are also hypercritical because of my heritage (we’ll leave that one there and not touch it because it’s a whole other thread)

My family are also quite Britain first in their mentality (again whole other thread) Neither mental side’s feeling will be strictly paid attention too but tbh I can do without the grief we got for DDs name on both sides, it was f’ing relentless.

So so far we like kinda but not properly.::

Aiden or aydin

Deen but spelt Dean

Asher

Rayan- my family would def have a problem with this name but aside from that it’s v v popular- I know about 4/5 people with a son called rayan so it dulls it a little for me.

It’s this or succumb to the footballer names DH keeps on suggesting

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Azaan
Keyaan
Azhaan
Aidan
Rafi
Daniyal
Hasan
Azlan

I sympathise. I only like girls' names too.

I'd go with Aidan

Have this same problem
Ended up going with Zachary for my 2 year old son as I could pass it off as zachariya so it sounds more Islamic haha currently expecting and I can't think of any names for my new son we're set on zayn at the moment and I think it's modern and easy to pronounce and I think Zack and zayn is cute too!
Good luck! Boys names are hard x

I thought Aidan was a fully british catholic name. Aidan the saint of lindisfarne, Northumberland, I don't think it evokes any Muslim feelings at all

Ones not mentioned yet:

Addi
Hicham
Qasim
Marouane
Nazih (bit dodgy without the “h” though)

That's so interesting, Aiden / Aidan to me are super Irish names (I know lots!) so I would never have assumed they were also Muslim ones.

Rohan
Ilyas
Ziya
Ehsan

My sons name is Aydin and no one has ever made of his name, he's 6. Your husbands family sound rude and intrusive.

@youvegottenminuteslynn

That's so interesting, Aiden / Aidan to me are super Irish names (I know lots!) so I would never have assumed they were also Muslim ones.

Muslim names too Aidan I think is a unisex name for tall palm tree and Aydin/Aiden is a Muslim boys name that means powerful x

Idrees?

Faraz
Raheem
Devin

Hmm maybe there are two aidans both with different routes but the name has been in Britain (namely Ireland) for thousands of years. If you wanted to go for a Muslim name that is immediately recognisable as such how about Ibrahim? It's a lovely name and Ibi for short

Imran or zayn or Dylan

I’d actually prefer a name more ambiguous, discrimination and all that x

I really like Idris (it’s also a mountain in Wales so def has British crossover appeal) and Ilyas (Illy for short is really cute).

Kian?

Isaac?

@ZiggZagg I have a Zakariah too, spelt the same , how do you pronounce it?

I know what you mean, maybe Idris as after Idris Elba it'll be immediately recognisable and it's quite cool

I really like Hani, don't know if that's had a mention yet!

Tarek/Tariq?

What about Akthar?

Kaid.

Yasir
Ali
Hamza
Bilal
Arif
Ayman/Eymen

Elias

What are the footballer names?