Islamic names

[sunshine766]

Just found out we are expecting a baby boy!
Looking for some boy names that are close to Quran and have good meanings however I'm white/British and dads Pakistani so looking for something that's easy for both sides of the family to pronounce!

Any idea?!?!

Rashid is ra sheed, so may be mispronounced at first but is then easy to pronounce and is a lovely name in my opinion.

Maybe Adam could work?

Adam
Ibrahim
Rayan
Mustafa
Yousef
Danyal
Amir

Congratulations!

Mikael (mih-kyle or mih-ky-el)
Musa
Ilyas (ill-yahs)
Idris
Yusuf
Saif
Isa
Kayani / Kiani
Ismael
Zakaria / Zaki (both full names, could be Zak)
Rafi
Rakan
Raees
Laith

Personally my favourite is Mikael with the second pronunciation, but I also love Ismael and Yusuf. I’m not sure if you wanted strictly Arabic names, but Kayani / Kiani is an Urdu name, which I figured I would include as your husband is Pakistani. Good luck picking!

Also to note - I think a lot of the names have really lovely nicknames if that’s something you would like to make the pronunciations easier.

Forgot a couple:

Zayn / Zain / Zaine
Zayd / Zaid
Taha
Yunus
Hamza
Faris

Congrats!

On our lists I had these for boys:
Rayhan
Zayn
Zakariya
Yusuf
Ali
Zayd
Yunus
Rashid
Rahim

There's alternative spellings of all of those too of course.

What about Haris?

Adam
Elio
Isaac
Abraham
Second name after the King Charles or Prince William.

I like these sounds and meanings..

Amir William
Azhar Edward
Babar Charles
Imran Alexander
Farham Willam
Waleed George

My sons best friend is called Zubair and his brother is called Zaid, I think both names are lovely.

Raed
Jamal
Aus
Adel

Aziz
Hasan
Ilyas
Rafiq
Latif
Sami
Maqsud
Suleiman

If you aren't a Muslim yourself, I'd use a more 'British' name if the baby will be having a Pakistani name, but that's me.
If you are a Muslim, then Mohammed would be an obvious choice, but it's very popular.

Basil
بَاسِل
brave, fearless, intrepid

Zain and Ali come to mind as one that work best in England/britain.

Amir, Karim and Zeeshan are great

Haitham
Qais
Laith
Faisal

Eesa, Arslan, Ibrahim

A lot what others have said but also

Sami

I know Muslim men and boys with the following names and love them all. I think they're all easy to pronounce:

Omar
Samir
Areez
Rehan
Zakariya (little boy is known as Zak or Zaki)
Faisal
Adam
Arif

Omar and Adam are my favourite

@nomoretreats , had already suggested it.

Elias / Ilyas
Jonah / Yunus
Noah / Nuh
Zakariya, shortened to Zak
Isaac / Ishaq
Omar
Daniel / Daniyal

Basically choose a biblical name and there probably is an Arabic equivalent!

Also depends if you want an Islamic name, Pakistani name or Arabic name.

For example I love the name Laith and that is an Arabic name. It’s not an Islamic name and it’s not a Pakistani name either. So depends on what you’re looking for!

@RainingRoses , the OP implies an Islamic name.
Basically choose a biblical name and there probably is an Arabic equivalent!
That's a sweeping statement.

I know that’s what the OP says but many of the names suggested aren’t Islamic, hence why I made that point, as many people confuse culturally Arabic and Pakistani names with Islamic names.

And I did say “probably”…

I wasn't criticising @RainingRoses . I'm curious about the need to ask for Islamic name suggestions. Won't most of the posters just be people browsing and not necessarily be Muslim?

Usually on a thread asking for [language/culture] names, there are suggestions that aren't [language/culture] or the names are ones that were extremely popular about 40 or 50 years ago.

Have thought of a few more! (can you tell these are my favourite posts? 😂)

Arabic

• Iskander
• Farhan
• Safi
• Qaiser / Qais

Directly Quranic

• Yahya
• Salih
• Hadi
• Aydin / Aydi
• Ayan