Which one of these Arabic Muslim baby boys names

[Mummyxxxx]

Boys nam Ahmed Ali Omar Yousef Elias Zaid Ziad

I think you should listen to your husband, me, and Kirsten from a few posts ago.

Yusef is beautiful.

Ahmed is also nice but there is the pronunciation that horrible joke from years ago that doesn’t need to be repeated here.

Yes. In my day also. But then that hunk came along 😂

but that said, it is a very nice name and one that was on a list of mine also for a grandchild. ❤️

@JellyBellyNelly , it crops up on nearly all the welsh boy's name threads. I have visions of a multi-ethnic class in somewhere like Cardiff or Wrexham with at least half a dozen little boys called Idris or Idriss.

Moroccan friend says 'Nooo, it's a very old man's name', and I say it was hardly ever used, then suddenly it's flavour of the month.

Omar and Ahmed both have different pronunciations in arabic.

😂😂😂.

Im laughing because along with my life in the Middle East, Wales also plays a huge part in it.

I really like Yousef

Omar

Can you spell it phonetically please? X

All very nice but Ziad or Elias are my favourites! Ali is lovely too.

@redbigbananafeet , Zah-eed

Oh I love them all! I would spell Ziad as Ziyad though to avoid any mispronunciation. I would have chosen Ziyad but the meaning of Ziyad is the same as the meaning for our eldest son's name xx

@JellyBellyNelly I didn't know about a horrible joke with the pronunciation.

Its hard to choose one out of them all 🥰@Annoyedwithmyself

@handbagsandholidays Ziyad shares the same meaning with 2 other names xx

It does. I must say our eldest is so true to the meaning of the name... he is always striving for more and trying to improve himself in all aspects of his life without any pressure from us. X

I should have also probably clarified that I meant I would have picked Ziyad for our second baby but we didn't want both of our boys to have the same meanings to their names. Xxx

I like Elias and Zaid from that list, the others on the list are all much more commonly used in my U.K. school but I'm not sure whether that's relevant or not.

Omar or Elias

What do you call a boy with a pork chop on his head?

Ahmed. (Ham head to Am ed to Ahmed)

Za + id

Its a long Zaa with a bit of a funny h in the middle then it ends with id

well, where I live anyway. An Arabic speaking country.

Isn't that Zahid, @JellyBellyNelly ? Or better still, could you write it in arabic script please.

No. Not Zahid.

and I’m sorry. I’m an Arabic speaker but I don’t write the language.

Zahid has a very pronounced ‘h’.

Zaid, perhaps I shouldn’t have even said (h) but it was the best way I could describe the funny sound/break in the middle of the name. It’s almost like an invisible sound if that makes sense. I will ask whichever one of my children I see first to explain it to me. They’re bilingual and we’re educated in both languages.

I named my son Khalid.. my grandmother didnt understand arabic names, she called him Colin 😂

That's how I'd have pronounced it too. I taught for two years in Cairo and teach in a diverse area of Glasgow so perhaps have a decent grasp. All lovely names. I had a child in Cairo tell me if Ahmed to imagine I was trying to fog up a mirror of the Ah sound. And Omar the Oh comes from your belly.

JellyBellyNelly Zaaa id or Zaaa heed?

As long as that was taken with charm I love this x