suggestions for muslim names?

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Anyone got any suggestions for Muslims names (boy or girl)- would like something which a bit different/unusual but with a nice meaning...

Hafsah or Sohaila for a girl

Said or Zakariya for a boy

Dd's friend is called Hebah which is nice.

My MIL is called Dilara which I have just discovered is Turkish for lover! ROFL

Hanya
Sumayah (Granddaughter of the Prophet, PBUH)
Anisa
Layla
Seema
Amira
Ahmal
Sorayah
Dania

Sami
Yusuf
Nawar
Rami
Kareem
Khalid
Bilal

Babadoo - "Dilara" is a girl's name in Turkey, but it does not mean anything in Turkish. It might mean that in Persian, though.

anything at all, as long as it has a good meaning.
we called dd huma, which is a beautiful bird that lives in paradise and has a lovely singing voice. but we had to change it as in dh's local village dialect the sound of huma has a not nice meaning.( which he didnt know, and i got tired of the liong silences after we told people her name. and then they would say a forced, 'thats nice'
she now has a name that is actually hindu origin, but has a beautiful meaning that everyone knows.

i have a 12 week old dd and had a right time trying to find a name...we decided on Aaminah, which is not very common i dont think (well i had never heard it before!). it means trustworthy, faithful, secure; name of the mother of the Prophet. After weeks of deciding we then heard the name Elissa, which we both absolutely loved and if i have another dd i will definately call her that.
we called our ds Sahil which means open river/ocean in arabic, also very unusal, i also love Ismail (the name of one of our Prophets) Mika'il (the name of an Angel) Zain (beauty) and Zaid (super abundance). Hope you find the name you are looking for!!!!i know how hard it can b

my mum thought she was pregnant and wrote down some names she liked that i think were muslim (her partner is muslim). they were esin/esen for a girl and asen for a boy. are they all pronounedc the same? in fact how are they said. i read them as ess-an and ass-en. is that right? don't like to ask as she is quite upset now she has found out she isn't pregnant.

oh and is ayla eye-lah or ay-lah?

we hey, my girl's name has been mentioned

nappyaddict, can you ask her partner instead?
Some names are pronounced differently depending on which part
of the Muslim world the person is from.

I have not come across esin/asen but I would pronounce
Ayla as ay-lay.

Sorry - I mean: ay-lah!

Try Nymbler I think it's www.nymbler.com you type in names you like and they give you similar cultural/religious/trendy classic ones

Esin is popular is Turkey.

Wow - ayla is what we have decided if we have a little girl...

why is everyone called mohammad?

I dont really know that many Mohammed's.

It's a popular name but - to my knowledge - not necessarily
common across all Islamic societies, e.g. I only rarely come
across Iranian or Turkish Mohammeds.

The popularity stems from Mohammed being the name of the prophet of Islam.

In Turkey it is actually frowned upon to be called Mohammed as it is sacred.... not across the board of course, Mustafa is more popular....

so is it ay - la and es- in? or eye-la and es-un?

hi nappyaddict
over here Ajla is eye-la
beautiful name btw, and very popular

Sorry, I meant Ayla, which is actually written Ajla here.

Nappyaddict it is Es-in

and esen is just another way of spelling esin but pron. the same?

esen is pronounced SN

well my 2 are called
Omar and mariam
did like aisha but very common, also liked laila rose
but dh had his way