Would you think this is a UnIqUe name?

[HaveImadeabooboo]

Aydin?

would your mind go straight to oh they’ve jumped on a trend bandwagon and got kreative with the spelling? Like nevaeh or heavenleigh?

Apologies if I've read this wrong through the thread OP, but you preferred Aiden, and your Arabic DH not only wanted Aydin, but has also given your son his Arabic surname? And your daughter also has an Arabic name? What were YOU allowed to choose OP? 🤔

My kids don’t have an Arabic surname, they aren’t Arabs, they have a ‘foreign’ surname- dh last name as he’s their father

so I wanted أيدٍ but to spell it as Aiden for ease. My husband preferred other names so this was our compromise. It’s the same name. He wanted Sami but I thought that would be read as ‘chavvy’

hidayah we decided together

You have mentioned the word 'Arabic' in over half your posts OP, so apologies if I wrongly assumed your DH had an Arabic surname, rather than being a 'foreign' surname- in your own words! 😕

Really like it, child in my dc’s school (.different year) is called this. Family are Muslim and parents 2nd gen Pakistani.

Because the names are Arabic names, I’ve used that because the names often but potentially mot exclusively used by Muslims but Dh doesn’t have a traditionally an Arabic surname (his surname is derived from Arabic but isn’t an common surname amongst the Arabs)

weird assumption though that I didn’t get to choose or get any say in my kids names

I would presume the name was Aidan and that the person had misspelled it.

Then call him something definitely Muslim that not a hairs breath away from a common British:Irish name.

What is wrong with Hidayah?

Weird assumption though that I didn't get to choose or get any say in my kids names

I wanted Aiden

but dh wanted the more arabicised spelling

It’s the same name the difference is the spelling

But you also assumed I didn’t chose my daughters name

I’d like to know too…

poster said I’d made life difficult for her and she’ll get bullied in the playground

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it. Hid-eye-ah? Hid-A-ah? It’s lovely. And Hiddy, or Heidi even, are cute abbreviations :)

You've got to remember that some posters here won't be able to conceive of a normal multicultural playground/school class where a name like Hidayah will be just as likely to occur as Emily...!

The first one and thank you ☺️

It is a Muslim name, but we wanted something that wasn’t too alien, I had no idea that it was a ‘trendy’ name that people had started to spell funky to look yhunik

I’d assume “Chavs who either can’t spell Aidan or are trying to be yooneek”.

If you are UK rather than Turkish I would use Aidan because what’s the point of giving an unusual spelling? It will just be a PITA. Like spelling Freya Freja or something.

there is a Turkish Aydin (but it’s not an i like ours it’s an I without a dot) that’s eye-din

and then there’s the Arabic Aydin (that’s like ay-din.

we went for the latter and Aidan in Arabic is a different name

Worst fear realised, right there

Aydin is a different name than Aidan. Aidan is in any case said ay-dun, with the stress on the first syllable. It sounds like Aydin is more even in the syllables and is Ay-din. So it’s a different name.

Given he doesn’t ‘look’ Arabic, yeah, he’ll probably have to spell it out a fair amount. But so what? My son has a top 20 name that seems very normal to me but I have to spell it out all the time.

There are always people who won’t like a name or will judge. Depends if you’re ok with that. If you like the name, and it suits the baby, go for it.

It's nothing to do with how common or rare it is.
It will get shortened to Hiddy, and then the cruel children will elongate it to hideous.
Can see it coming a mile off.

Hidayah being called hideous literally never occurred to me, the i sound is very short so I can’t really see it being shortened to Hiddy

And Emily and Emma are phlegmily and phlegma, Lauren is Lawrence, Ashleigh (or Ashley) was Asslee, Phoebe was fleabe, Annabel was bellend, Harriet was rat. That’s just a selection of nicknames I’ve encountered