MENA Baby Names

[KittyPollitt 284]

Our daughter is due in 3 weeks, we're naming her Fatima Zahra.. He had insisted on choosing names, and then ended up being pleasantly surprised when he got stumped and I chose myself.. If we ever have a boy, we'll name him Cherif Abdelah, after his grandfather.. hopefully, there will only be two

[hassan_debbie 4]

we have ours picked out.

William Kabbour for a boy. My deceased dads name and his dads name.

M'Barka Grace for a girl. His deceased moms name and my moms name.

They don't use middle names in Morocco but our kids going to have one.

Deb

[Kenza 1]

Our daughter is due in 3 weeks, we're naming her Fatima Zahra.. He had insisted on choosing names, and then ended up being pleasantly surprised when he got stumped and I chose myself.. If we ever have a boy, we'll name him Cherif Abdelah, after his grandfather.. hopefully, there will only be two

Congrats and great name!!!!

[CasandraYounes 0]

Jenn - Adam is so cute and I think you should be fine with the name

Nawal - I love your story on how you choose the names.

I love this topic. Aziz and I had discussed this WAY before we got married and it was always difficult for me to come up with a name that would be pleasing to both his family and my Panamanian family. Granted if they have an arabic name they might have a spanish middle name. So after years of debate this is a loose list of what we came up with.

Girls:

Aya Maribel

Layla Yamileth

Amina

Alianna

Nahla Karime

Dooniya

Boy:

Ismail because it can either be Ismael

Jamil

Zamir (hubby doesn't want it)

Zayan Estevan

Adan

Adam

Khalil Zaki

Just to name a few. Although I don't know how people would react with that, but thats what we want

[IR5FORMUMSIE 850]

Jenn - Adam is so cute and I think you should be fine with the name

Nawal - I love your story on how you choose the names.

I love this topic. Aziz and I had discussed this WAY before we got married and it was always difficult for me to come up with a name that would be pleasing to both his family and my Panamanian family. Granted if they have an arabic name they might have a spanish middle name. So after years of debate this is a loose list of what we came up with.

Girls:

Aya Maribel

Layla Yamileth

Amina

Alianna

Nahla Karime

Dooniya

Boy:

Ismail because it can either be Ismael

Jamil

Zamir (hubby doesn't want it)

Zayan Estevan

Adan

Adam

Khalil Zaki

Just to name a few. Although I don't know how people would react with that, but thats what we want

Best name ever!!!!!

Our daughter is due in 3 weeks, we're naming her Fatima Zahra.. He had insisted on choosing names, and then ended up being pleasantly surprised when he got stumped and I chose myself.. If we ever have a boy, we'll name him Cherif Abdelah, after his grandfather.. hopefully, there will only be two

Lovely name.

[tnh9479 1]

We had a hard time with names when picking too, because we wanted names both our American and Moroccan families could pronounce. My husband was adamant our son have a name that is in the Quran. These ended up being our favorite names : Boy = Zakaria Girl = Hana .

[Resha 1]

My daugthers name is Fatima Zahraa as well It really is a lovely name with good meaning, lots of people in Morocco have it but not here in America lol If we have a boy next he will be Youssef Adnan... Girl next hmmm havent thought too much about it but fiance likes Hafsa .. Me , not so much lol

[TracyHamza 1]

the ladies in my hubby's family have all beautiful names....mounia, rkia, hasnaa, kenza

[KittyPollitt 284]

Our daughter is due in 3 weeks, we're naming her Fatima Zahra.. He had insisted on choosing names, and then ended up being pleasantly surprised when he got stumped and I chose myself.. If we ever have a boy, we'll name him Cherif Abdelah, after his grandfather.. hopefully, there will only be two

Congrats and great name!!!!

Thank you!

[Donna A 4]

even though we dont want kids i always told my husband if we did have one we could never name her fatima. its a pretty name but with the word fat in it im sure the kids would call her fatty or something. u know how cruel kids are.

[IR5FORMUMSIE 850]

even though we dont want kids i always told my husband if we did have one we could never name her fatima. its a pretty name but with the word fat in it im sure the kids would call her fatty or something. u know how cruel kids are.

Layla isn't much better.

[KittyPollitt 284]

even though we dont want kids i always told my husband if we did have one we could never name her fatima. its a pretty name but with the word fat in it im sure the kids would call her fatty or something. u know how cruel kids are.

That's exactly why we're going to use Zahra for when she's in school.. lol..

[angie & abed 1]

I loved the name Malak as soon as he said he wanted to name our daughter that, I had a hard time with a middle name, but finally fell in love with Rihanna...so, our 1st born is Malak Rihanna.

Second daughter we couldn't agree on a name, seriously even when my water broke we couldn't agree on a name. The names I loved were all vetoed because they were either too common or too old sounding and the ones he loved no one here would ever say correctly. So, we ended up naming her after his mom and my mom chose a middle name since she didn't want us to use her middle name (cause she never liked her own name!, everyone was soooo difficult). Our second daughter's name is Samar Leigh. (though I think she should have really been named Aya, but whatever, I'm only her MOM!!))

Our future son, if we have one, will be Hussein Orion, first name after his deceased father and middle name cause I've always liked the name Orion. If we have another daughter, God bless her, I don't know if we can come up with another girl's name we can agree on.

[Berber Mama 5]

We have a one year old named Mehdi Amin.

We are expecting baby # 2 in April. We've been back and forth on the baby names. I have picked Ayman for a boy. He insists on Najat for a girl but I'm not sold yet.

[sandinista! 1,816]

i the name naayma, it makes me think of the john coltrane song. my husband and i both can't stand the name layla though. ugh.