Baby names

[mawilson 2,133]

Jihad for a boy.

One of the female characters in a movie I brought back from Egypt is named Jihad but they don't say it that way... they call her Gihad.

I guess it could be a girl's name too but according to this web site

http://www.muslim-names.co.uk/

it's a boy's name.

"Madhat" means Praise, apparently.

Edited October 29, 2006 by mawilson

[~Jess~ 0]

well......i had names picked out before i married an Arab man lol they were going to be

Alexis Jade for a girl (Lexi or AJ for short)

and

Matthew James for a boy.............

well its expected of me to use my husband first name as a middle name for all of our children, male or female and i dont like that...........and his family wants me to name our first son george's dads name which would make our sons name just opposite of his name (Haress Georges) georges is Georges Haress and i was asked to name our first daughter after his mother Selma........ i dont like it.........so we shall see when we have a little one what the name will end up lol

[Donna A 4]

my mother in laws name is lafaf and i like it. also one of my sister in laws name is reem which i like it too. i like makayla, michaela...etc for girls name.

boys...well i dont really know about that. even when i was pregnant with my daughter i didnt have a boy name picked.

i just know it wont be fatima (cuz of the fat word in it) and noor cuz thats his daughters name or dima which i like but its his ex's names so that out.

[melly 0]

well......i had names picked out before i married an Arab man lol they were going to be

Alexis Jade for a girl (Lexi or AJ for short)

and

Matthew James for a boy.............

well its expected of me to use my husband first name as a middle name for all of our children, male or female and i dont like that...........and his family wants me to name our first son george's dads name which would make our sons name just opposite of his name (Haress Georges) georges is Georges Haress and i was asked to name our first daughter after his mother Selma........ i dont like it.........so we shall see when we have a little one what the name will end up lol

When I saw the name Selma, all I could think of was Marge's sister from The Simpsons.

It's a pretty name though.

[~Jess~ 0]

im not sure if its spelled Selma or Salma.....ill have to ask but either way........no thank you not for me

[Ban Hammer 13,481]

Jihad for a boy.

Madhat for a girl.

nah, if a girl name her salmonella

[StupidJourney 0]

We'll most likely be using Arabic names, but I kind of liked the idea of picking a name using the culture of wherever we are when it was conceived! There are lots of girl names I like, but I'm having trouble thinking of boy names I like. I don't want anything that would be too difficult to pronounce, so that leaves out anything with the "kh" and "gh" sounds (I teach at a school with a girl who pronounces khadijah "ka - dee ja" and boy who pronounces khalil "ka-leel" and I don't like that everyone pronounces it wrong!) I like Adil, but that's about the only boy name I can think of that I like. For girls, there's yassmine, meriem, selma, etc. Girl names are easier I think. Girls can get away with exotic names more than boys.

[honeyblonde 0]

Girls can get away with exotic names more than boys.

Not necessarily. My youngest sons' name is Jaxom and everybody that knows him thinks his name is really cool. My oldest son even asks me why he didn't get a cool name.

[sarah and hicham 3]

nice.

[Anna and Ali 13]

i know this thread is old but i wanted to chime in.

not to share too much personal info but i loved the name aaliyah until i put it with Ali's full name. THat poor little girl would get teased if her names was Aaliyah Ali Ayyat. Say it outloud

I have some lengthy pretentious names that im attached to and Ali's face was like

four kids, two boys, two girls

Pelayo-boy layo for short

Ayla-girl

Labayala- boy (though it sounds a bit feminine)

possible Laila for the last girl....I'm obsessed with names with y's

i don't want kids really but if i have one i might as well have four and become a super dedicated mom.

[Liz Rodriguez 1]

I was looking at this thread and I was like this is like 4 years old. LOL. I have 4 kids now. 2 girls 2 boys. Casandra, james, jonathon, melanie but when my so comes inshaallah no more bumps in the road. We are planning on doing surrogate bc I can not have anymore but I still have my ovaries and we havent even thought about names really except if it is a boy it will be taha too. go figure. LOL