Boys names

[WhyamInotvomiting]

Any suggestions? I'm quite early in pregnancy so no rush but this is my third, and in two previous pregnancies we have only been able to ever settle on one boy's name, which we have now already used! It's mostly DH who says he doesn't like basically everything...

We want something with Arabic or Persian or Turkish origins, but something that can be pronounced correctly (or pretty much correctly) easily in English. So not an anglicised version of a name if that makes sense.

So far I like:
Rahim
Younus
Yusef
Alim
Ali
Zakariya

But DH doesn't seem to like any of them...

how about Latif? (gentle)
or Noor?

zakariya will get shortened to Zak... so don't reccommend that one

The Muslim boys I know are called

Areez
Arif
Hamza
Zakariah (Zaki)
Ahmed
Rehan

I find them all easy to say

Yusuf and Yahya are my two favourite boys names, I don't have any boys but if I did then I would have probably chosen one of them. I love how the prophet Yahya is described in the Quran with one his qualities mentioned as being kind to his parents
When we chose our children's names, we tried to balance between names that held a meaning dear to us but keeping in mind how it would be pronounced in school
I also like
Muhammad
Musa
Dawood
Eesa
Sulayman
Bilal
Ahmad
Humayd
Nuh
As you can see I personally prefer prophetic and traditional names

I love Yusef, it sounds like they'd be such a gentle soul! How about Hasan?

Adam?

In my family, we have given boys familiar , short and easy to pronounce names such as;
Omar, Jamal , Kamal, Hashim and Hamza. Not sure if they fit well with Turkish and Arabic versions.

I could have written your post myself almost two years ago @WhyamInotvomiting😂

My personal favourite boy's names are:
Zakariya
Yusuf
Adam
Ismaeel
Bilal
Dawud
Yaqub
Yaseen
Zidaan (sp?)
Suleiman

I love the prophet's names, like previous posters. I find with my little boy that people can slip into using the anglicized version sometimes but I'm still very happy with our choice alhamdulillah.

Boys names we have are mehmet-akif and orhan. They are turkish.

I always wanted yusuf though! But family got in the way a little bit

These are also lovely names:

Rayaan
Aidan
Omari

The ones mentioned above are really nice too.

Omar
Kariem
Sami
Laith
Hossam
Rami
Zakariya
Ishaq (Isaac)
Ismail
Ilyas
Zayd
Murad
Ali
Fadi
Shereef
Ayad
Ayoub

From that list, Rami and Laith are my favourites!

I wouldn't worry about names being pronounced properly at school; bring your child up to be proud of whatever name you give them and don't feel shy about educating people around you about how to say the name correctly- they may not succeed but they can certainly try. If we can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Niamh correctly, Yahya and Sulaiman can be learnt too!

Kareem
Saleem
Kamal

@DillyDallyingAllDay 100% !! Mine always correct their names, as they should. People still say them wrong. I'm sure it's done on purpose.

Also, I have found since wearing hijab people try to make my name more 'exotic' by adding sounds or letters to it... I have a very generic 3 letter english name.

I agree with this to a point as my own name is not easily pronounced in English and yet I've always liked it. Having said that, it is frustrating sometimes when people clearly try to avoid saying it at all, or make up nicknames/diminutives of it without even checking with me, and it's still not always easy as an adult to challenge because then you can get labelled as being overly sensitive about it or whatever. And as a child I often felt shy or awkward about correcting the pronunciation.

Having said that, I agree with your sentiment, and anyway no matter how simple a name is, it's sometimes going to be mispronounced, that's inevitable. Nevertheless I still want to pick something that is easily pronounceable in the English language and spelled as phonetically as possible, I do think this will just make my kids lives that bit easier. My first two children have Arabic names that are very easy to pronounce in English and spelt pretty phonetically.