What would you name your daughter/son?

[Lebanese_dream]

Originally Posted by coralie

by the way we have a weird tradition in lebanon ... always name your first baby boy 3ala essm the father of the husband i fingd it realy weird !!! imagine the father has a very old name why giving the little boy this kind of name ?? imagine hasaballa or naiim .... ouff its too much !!! i find it realy unapropriate ! but this is somehow the lebanese tradition

Still Naim better than nazir, fahim, nassif, rizkallah, abboud, mounir....
I can't even imagine a kid of 1 year bi hek esem!!!
Don't begin and tell me, mfakra hala class bedda tsamiyoun as foreigners... I adore arabic names as Karim, Samer, Ziad... But when I will come to choose the name I would do it with adapting with Europeans and Americans because believe me a discrimination is done directly if the name is pure Arabic... I know one thing If my children wanna live abroad, I will never give them a weird arabic name, enno haram koun sabab ez3aj la ebné or benté bi sabab esmoun...

[Inanna]

Originally Posted by mount_amel

Girls : Zeinab , Fatima and Roqaya
Boys : Ali , Mohammad , Hassan , Haussien , Mehdi

w Iza mish 3ejeba , tfel 3end ahla ...

yea that's the spirit!

Originally Posted by Coralie

well i use to think like you and always had a list of nams for girls nver thought about boys .... and guess what ? i end up with 2 boys no girls ~!!(alla ykhalihon )

by the way we have a weird tradition in lebanon ... always name your first baby boy 3ala essm the father of the husband i fingd it realy weird !!! imagine the father has a very old name why giving the little boy this kind of name ?? imagine hasaballa or naiim .... ouff its too much !!! i find it realy unapropriate ! but this is somehow the lebanese tradition

Alla ykhalilik yehon la your 2 kids!
about naming after the father name, it's all a matter of discussion, let's say you agreed that you'll name the girl and he'll name the boy, and his father has a nice name, i dont see a problem with that, akid as long as the name doesnt go back shi 3 centuries la wara ! i care that my kid's names will be nice and meaningful.

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[avouva]

if it's a boy i like Géos or Chris
if it's a girl(i wish my first baby will b a girl) Géa or Chloé

[coralie]

Originally Posted by Inanna

yea that's the spirit!

Alla ykhalilik yehon la your 2 kids!
about naming after the father name, it's all a matter of discussion, let's say you agreed that you'll name the girl and he'll name the boy, and his father has a nice name, i dont see a problem with that, akid as long as the name doesnt go back shi 3 centuries la wara ! i care that my kid's names will be nice and meaningful.

i am not against this tradition on the contrary it is nice to some extent .. but somtimes the name of the father is sooo oldfashion men 3omr el khebez and i simply feel sorry for the baby to have such an old name ! and i am not against arab or lebanese names no but come onnnn there is names that are realy "perime" expired ! why should a child bear with this for the rest of his life ! ? i find it unfaire ... plus they give the baby this old name and then start to call him with a nice diminutif like zouzou or bicho or sisso ... ouff once i discovered that the real name of an owner of a shop was dakhlallla and all the years evry one use to cal him steeve i was chou jeb toz la marhaba !! and when i asked the guy ouff chou jeib steeve la dakhlalla he said i hate my name but its my grand father name so i start calling my self steeve since i was a little boy !

[lebanese_a]

Originally Posted by coralie

i am not against this tradition on the contrary it is nice to some extent .. but somtimes the name of the father is sooo oldfashion men 3omr el khebez and i simply feel sorry for the baby to have such an old name ! and i am not against arab or lebanese names no but come onnnn there is names that are realy "perime" expired ! why should a child bear with this for the rest of his life ! ? i find it unfaire ... plus they give the baby this old name and then start to call him with a nice diminutif like zouzou or bicho or sisso ... ouff once i discovered that the real name of an owner of a shop was dakhlallla and all the years evry one use to cal him steeve i was chou jeb toz la marhaba !! and when i asked the guy ouff chou jeib steeve la dakhlalla he said i hate my name but its my grand father name so i start calling my self steeve since i was a little boy !

wich one is toz?
That's nice getting to name yourself!

and I want to add something to my previous post, if you remember I didn't choose any name I just set standars and here is another one, the name should be able to go with any social position, uno personnaly and ma3 kel i7tirameh to the people that have this name, bass for example I don't feel that president directeur general and Joey go together.

[3i3o]

I need your advice, my father’s name is Abdo, my name is Abdo, do you think I should call my son Abdo?

P.S: I think “Suzanne” is great for a girl.

[Inanna]

Originally Posted by 3i3o

I need your advice, my father’s name is Abdo, my name is Abdo, do you think I should call my son Abdo?

P.S: I think “Suzanne” is great for a girl.

this reminds me of emile emile emile ....
suzanne is nice, but it sounds to me like the name of a grown up person, not a little girl!

[3i3o]

Originally Posted by Inanna

this reminds me of emile emile emile ....
suzanne is nice, but it sounds to me like the name of a grown up person, not a little girl!

A3ouzo bel lah ....:D

Anyway, while she is a littile girl she will be "Suzi"...Don't you think?

[Inanna]

Originally Posted by coralie

i am not against this tradition on the contrary it is nice to some extent .. but somtimes the name of the father is sooo oldfashion men 3omr el khebez and i simply feel sorry for the baby to have such an old name ! and i am not against arab or lebanese names no but come onnnn there is names that are realy "perime" expired ! why should a child bear with this for the rest of his life ! ? i find it unfaire ... plus they give the baby this old name and then start to call him with a nice diminutif like zouzou or bicho or sisso ... ouff once i discovered that the real name of an owner of a shop was dakhlallla and all the years evry one use to cal him steeve i was chou jeb toz la marhaba !! and when i asked the guy ouff chou jeib steeve la dakhlalla he said i hate my name but its my grand father name so i start calling my self steeve since i was a little boy !

this reminds me of a funny similar story!
my aunty's husband name is "abdel razak", he was called so after his father's best friend name
akid my aunt had a son who decided now that he wants to name his kid after his father's name! so imagine a little beautiful blond baby with the most beautiful colored eyes called "abdel razak"! eno come on! so they call him "boudi" but the whole idea looks weird to me! walla 7aram!