Samaya?

[firstontheway]

Do you all like the name Samaya? Would be Maya for short most of the time.

And for middle name Alicia or Rose? I like Alicia as it's my mum's name, but not sure if Samaya Alicia sounds quite right?

DD2 is Maya Rose, I am not too keen on Samaya to be honest, why not just called her Maya?

How would you pronounce it? Sa-May-A or Sam-I-A

Yep - sounds fine to me. Like the potential to be Sam / Sammy too.
In reality you don't use the second name often so use whatever name you like.

Sorry I dont like it. Maya is a lovely name though.
Maya Rose is lovely.

not keen on samaya, sorry. like maya though.
pgwithnumber3... you must be due soon. have you decided on a name yet?. i keep see you on the baby names thread!!! lol happy new year. xx

I'd just go for Maya. I actually know a Samaya - lovely person but it never seems like a proper name to me.

I quite like Samaya, and certainly prefer it over Maya (sorry to all Mayas, btw...), but Samaya Alicia might be a bit much, maybe Samaya Alice...and whilst Rose is lovely, it is just rather predictable as a middlename.

I like Maya more as a day to day name tbh, but wanted an arabic name as dh is arabic. That version is spelled Sumeyah but thought Samaya was a nicer spelling and lends itself to Maya a bit easier. Hmmm

Would be pronounced Sa-may-a

Much prefer Maya to be honest. If you want an Aarbic name, there are lots of pretty ones that you wouldn't need to alter!

We like Layla also, which is on our shortlist.

But haven't found any others that i want to call my daughter, beautiful though they are

Layla is gorgeous

sounds made up to me - might not be - but it sounds it

I think Samaya Rose sounds lovely. I've never heard Samaya before, but it sounds like a name to me. And the child gets the option whether to be a Maya or a Sam. Go for it!

Nancy it's an arabic name....

anyway, all names were made up at one fecking point...

I love it. I've seen the name Samaya or Samayah before. Samaya means "exalted".

Definitely go with Samaya Rose.

If your DH is Arabic then go for Samaya and shorten it to Maya. My Maya is fabulous!

matildax - LOL, name threads are where you find me atm, in a few weeks it will be the breast feeding threads. I am due in just over 4 weeks. I feel like I have never been pregnant. We have chosen Amelie Faye for DD3.

It's OK. But if you like Maya, just use that. It's nicer.

I think its beautiful. And she could always shorten it to Sami if she's not keen on Maya.

Samaya Rose is just gorgeous!

it's quite nice - do you have cultural reasons for using it? I also liked Leyla for this baby but dp doesn't - we have now settled on another Arabic girls name - but for some reason girl's names seem to be harder than boys!

I have a friend with a Samiya, she's always Sam or Sami, I prefer Samiya to Samaya. It's an arabic name

Babybaby- yes, my dh is arabic which is why we wanted an arabic name

Other nice and unusual arabic names with S..Saraya, Sulhiya, Saada, Salma/ Selma or my favourite at the moment Naima

It's ok, quite pretty, but I'd never pick it. Not at all a bad name though.

pgwithnumber3..... amelie faye is a beautiful name!! glad you have picked something eventually!!
all the very best with the rest of your pregnancy.
love matilda xx

I think Summiyah could be a more standard spelling. We quite liked Somaya as an Anglicisation, but it's the name of a Puerto Rican porn star.