Which one of these Arabic Muslim baby boys names

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Boys nam Ahmed Ali Omar Yousef Elias Zaid Ziad

Zaaa id

I had a colleague called Zahid, pronounced Zah-heed. I always thought that was a lovely name, and quite unusual. He said its a little used form of Sayed.

I might be biased though, because he is just the most lovely man.

I read Zaid and Zayd rather than Z-eyed but can see how it could be either either.

@TheUnexpectedPickle , they are not the same name or the same meaning

If your son is going to grow up in the Arab world all those names are nice. But if he's growing up here in the UK, I would suggest a name that can easily be pronounced by the British. We named our daughter Yasmine, and it gets pronounced "yaz-meen"over here. She's given up on trying to get people to pronounce it right and now wants to change her name to "Elle" 🙄

How should it be said, @JustMaggie ?

The Arabic pronunciation is "yes-MEEN"

It’s pronounced without the z sound. It’s an S. Yasmeen.

Thanks. I know a Yasmin (white, english heritage) and a Yasmina (maghrebi heritage)
Yasmin is YAS-min or Yas, Yasmina is Yas-MEEN-ah.

I'd sayياسمين as Yas-meen not Yes-meen

Not my name though.

Having to correct pronunciation and/or spelling can be a PITA. Some people are ok with it and others not.
The thing is though that a lot of people dislike being corrected, and if you don't correct them they won't know they got it not quite right.
Some people will just not get the difference between Yaz-min and Yes-meen or Om-arr and Ohm-AAAAH

Usually an ‘a’ sound at the end of a name indicates female.

Salim is male. Salima is female.

Sorry. I just think Yasmina is one of the many forms Yasmin can take

Fair enough, I'm only going by what he told me.
I assume he jus wasn't particularly interested in name meanings!

Sayid means noble or high ranking. So for example a Minister or a Prince would be called Sayid Bader.

Zahid is something completely different.

Currently there is a trend for traditional Arabic names, particularly names of prophets - in DS's year 1 year group, there are 6 little boys called Elias/ilias/ilia.

I'm currently loving more modern names like Haider, Leith, Xavier/Javier, Erdem.

Sayeed means happy

I love Elias.

elias is beautiful

@JustMaggie I could move to an Arab country in the future and Ali is easily pronounced by the British.

If you move to an Arab country in the Gulf beware that the name Ali is very much associated with the "Shiaa". If you're Christian I would go with Elias or something more neutral.

@SasuJones Khaled is also on my husbands list on names

I don't think that would be an issue @JustMaggie

They're all nice, but I'd choose Yousef :)

No. That’s a different word to the one mentioned above.

And the name generally associated with happy is Farhan or Farhana for a girl.

I’m sorry, but that’s not the case.