[blparent] names

[jan wright]

Melissa, I too, love the name Oriana. I thought of naming my daughter
Ariana, but was afraid that I would forever be correcting everyone:
"It is ar not Air."

Our married last name (although I have not changed it in email) is
Ahmed. People call DH Ahmed or Amod or something similar and don't
even use his first name.
In some cultures it is common for the wife and children to use the
man's first name as their last.
My husband's name is Imran.
(My mother use to call him Iran -- and pronounce it like it rhymes
with my name "jan"). I didn't want to be "Jan Im ran."
So, I am Jan ahmed.

I love names. I could look up and pour over names for hours.
>From my first marriage, I have four children.
Dominika was named by   his mother.I didn't have a baby book then.
And.... ... my family has a habit of changing or shortening names they
don't like. I liked "Antoinette" or "Antonia," but they would shorten
it to Toni. "Alexandria," would be shortened to Alex. Myranda would be
shortened to Randi and so on. " Ashari would be sherry.  My first son
was named after his father, Demieli, pronounced "Demeal." I don't know
what his mother was thinking by putting that "i" on the end and
honestly, she doesn't remember either. But, to have a Junior, you have
to keep the spelling.
LaTroi  Antonio is my third son and Kyler Jovon is my fourth.
With this baby, I poured over baby books and naming websites. My dh is
Pakistani and I promised that the baby would have a Pakistani first
name. He has a common (or not so common, but my choice) kind of
american name. DH doesn't like the "middle name" concept, but he has
to deal with that one.
For boys, I liked the names:
Justus, Sabion, DaReece, Zandor, Ajalon, Zion, Asher, Julien, Aithan,
Jaqeem, Simeon,  Aivrien, ... ... Zariyan, Zayaan/Zayonne, Arsalan,
Ahsaan/Ehsonne,  maybe Yaqub and Yusef. The last names can be
Pakistani names, as well, but not the first set of names. Keyaan and
Taban were reportedly "muslim" names, but DH had not heard of them
before.   His name is Azaan (pronounced Azon) Gabriel. I love the name
more and more every day. My family gave me flack for naming him a
Pakistani name, but I would threaten to name him Osama, just for
spite. Now, I would never do this, but, come on, Azaan is not bad at
all and can be pronounced easily.  Actually, Azaan was probably one of
the only names that we, DH and I,  both liked.  I tease DH and tell
him that the next baby will be named Sanjay -- a Hindi / Indian name.
I actually like Sanjay, (As well as Veejay and Aneel)  but DH would
never name his child something that would make people suspect that he
might be Hindu.  If I have another boy, my top  names are: Justus,
Julion, Simeon and Taj.
For a girl, DH liked Kiran... ... pronounced Keeryn.  If the baby was
a girl, I would have relented and named her Kiran because it is / was
DH's first. Actually, I toyed with Kiran Jannae. I like Samiya,
Nyasha, Atiya, Soraya, Yasmin, Sabriya, Najia [accent on the first
syllable: Nawjia), Shohana, Zartasha, Rani(pronounced as Jaws
pronounces it),  Nyaera and Zaara.      (Jayanni, anjali, Shanti,
Jaydria/Jaydra, Ashtee, Aneela   and Brishti are automatically out
because, they too are Hindu names, but I like them).  I liked India
-- or spelled Yndia with a Y (But, Pakistan has a love/hate
relationship with India and it just would not go over well--- smile),
and  Pandora (but not since the app).    I liked Khari, Aubrielle,
Dhanya, Eedyn, Jaicelia, Brishelle, Lucia, Jaqara,  Zola, Ashiyana,
but those are  not Pakistani, either. Ones that almost made the list
were:  Aja, Serena, Krysha, Brié,  Kamiel, Aleena, Abriana, Kalindi,
Breena, chella, Daria and Tamandra.
I like Jyenne(rhyming with Cheyenne), Brielle(The last part of
Gabriele's name), Annique and KryShawn for middle names. My mother has
fourteen grandchildren:
Joshua, Dominika, Demieli, Latroi, Kyler, Dakota, Darian, Lincoln,
Sofia, Liam, Langston, Donnavan, Trystian (pronounced Trystin) and
Azaan.
She has a great grandchild (not from any of my children) named Lily.
If I were going to go with a musical theme, I might do a Dantino,
Rondeau, Kryshenda or Allegra (although that is a medicine, now). .
 There was a nichelodian show called Allegra's window and I really liked it.

there are lots of websites and you can't always believe what you hear/ read.
www.babynology.com
has some names, but not sure if they are correct on origin or meaning.