Re: Adam
What does 'heavy' name mean?
I like the name.. It's my favourite Muslim name for a boy..
Re: Adam
well , to be honest i think its just one of the superstition kind of thing. Because for all we know as per the sunnah we were told to give a name to the baby which has a beautiful meaning , Aadam is a beautiful name and has a positive meaning .. so I dont know if this heavy thing matters at all..
Like a friend has a son , he's a special needs child , they changed his name saying that the previous name was heavy on him and he was always ill .. now they have changed the name but unfortunately the child's condition is still the same .. so really i dont know where this thought comes from .. Though i do believe that names do affect a person that is why we are told to carefully choose beautiful names with positive meanings .. Keeping that logic in mind , a negative name could probably affect a person adversely?
It is a beautiful name. The roots are from Hebrew, i believe. 'Adamah' means earth or ground. From it you derive Adam etc. :)
re: The Big Thread of Baby Names
My son's name is Moosa, :)
And I also like Essa, Ibrahim, Mustufa, Azjmeer.
For Girl;
Zaina, Mishal, Manha, Rohma.
deciding over the baby name
How do you get your inlaws to agree to the name you have chosen for ur child.. so far me and my husband have liked two names and askd my inlaws to choose one outta the two.. bt mil fil still coming up with paindoo suggestions. . When I ask her abt th ones we suggested she says 'hmm lekin mujhey to ye wala naam bohat pasand hai'.. the worst is tht the names she suggested are alrdy taken by kids in her fmly and tht too immediate fmly members :@ its rlly pissing me off.. how do I tell them tht I only want a name out of the two choices iv given BUSS :/
Re: deciding over the baby name
have your hubby tell them exactly what you said...that the names are already taken by close family members. you want your child to have a special name. you want your child to have name A or B and want them to help you decide out of the two
Re: deciding over the baby name
I want to know the paindoo name suggestions.. whats the criteria?
Re: deciding over the baby name
Just name what you two like, once he is named after birth, tell them your husband named the baby
Re: deciding over the baby name
Paindo names?
Quite a long road for you then. 
Re: deciding over the baby name
Filhal to it is getting difficult for me to get my hubby agree to the names I want him to consider… LOL. Choose to door ki baat, he says, me khud rakhunga… LOL… but its cute… I know, he will come up with something good.
In fact, it’s my hubby you chose the names for the other babies in my immediate in-laws so… there is no chance that the grand-parents of the either side of my angel are gonna suggest any names for him/her 
Hubby won’t let anyone do that 
Maybe you can convince them with an excuse that the letter they are choosing isn’t good for your baby Paindoo hain to is baat p bhi yaqeen karlengy 
Re: deciding over the baby name
you have to be firm on this...instead of asking them, you should have told them that you and your hubby have given your baby such and such name. you shouldn't have given them any option.
having said that, you should realize that folks of older generation think that grandparents have the right to name the baby...you will be accorded the same right when your have your grand children
since times and cultures has changed rapildly for desis in the west, this right has been taken away from them by the new generation so they feel deprived of their rights and find themselves at a loss. some of them sometimes complain about it politely and, sometimes, they enforce their rights.
Re: Adam
It's my boys name, we spell it Aadam though. I've never heard anything about it being a 'heavy' name (am not even sure what you mean by that?) but chose it because it is a Prophets name
Re: deciding over the baby name
My sister in-law and mom in-law kept My son's name. I wanted to keep it Abdullah, they didnt ask me, kept it Moosa. Husband said; tum bohat achi Ho, let them keep it in the 1st baby.
Re: deciding over the baby name
My inlaws kept their children s' name and my parents kept ours.. I think its only fair to let the ppl going thru these nine months of pregnancy to have th right to name their children atleast. . My mil fil sil nobody was there with me thru this tough time and now they suddenly wanna name my baby.. he/she will anyway get their family surname ! I dunno why in laws make it such a big issue :(
Re: deciding over the baby name
you have to be firm on this...instead of asking them, you should have told them that you and your hubby have given your baby such and such name. you shouldn't have given them any option.
having said that, you should realize that folks of older generation think that grandparents have the right to name the baby...you will be accorded the same right when your have your grand children
since times and cultures has changed rapildly for desis in the west, this right has been taken away from them by the new generation so they feel deprived of their rights and find themselves at a loss. some of them sometimes complain about it politely and, sometimes, they enforce their rights.
I have already played the 'husband has chosen this one name card' the prob is my mil paid zero attention to tht and said mene bhi naam soch lia hai.. then just so my inlaws could feel involved in the naming I decided to tell them two names and ask them to pick one lekin nai even tht is not acceptable :( the prob is neither I or my hubby are the rebellious type we eventually become the red carpet accepting every thing his fmly demands frm us :@
Re: deciding over the baby name
My sister in-law and mom in-law kept My son's name. I wanted to keep it Abdullah, they didnt ask me, kept it Moosa. Husband said; tum bohat achi Ho, let them keep it in the 1st baby.
I love the name Abdullah infact that is one of the names iv chosen if its a boy :) but moosa is nice too.. bt th fact is tht th woman who went through everything in 9 friggin months has atleast th right to have a say :@ m sorry m just too pissed and I can't be *****y infrnt of my inlaws. . So just needed to vent :'(
Re: deciding over the baby name
For goodness sake, name the baby what you and hubby want once it's born and tell them afterwards. What are they gonna do- get mad for a bit and then get over it? Cross that bridge when you get to it.
Re: Adam
Names don’t have an impact on personality. Just stop with that, really. If your kid is a terror, you’re probably a terrible parent with the worst luck- accept responsibility for it. 
What Islam says it that it should be a name with a positive good meaning. Aadam is a beautiful name and belonged to a Prophet.
And don’t spell it Aadham- the d sound is like “dum ka qeema” (the only example I can think of right now! 
) and not like “dhoop”.
I get the heavy name thing- I feel it strongly about Israfil (a name I love but would never choose because of what it is)- but I don’t feel Aadam is heavy at all. I feel it is overwhelmingly positive and hopeful and beautiful. The first human! Amazing.
Re: baby boy name zidane
My kiddos middle name is Zidane and i know another whose first name is the same but spelt Zidan and pronounced with a longer "a" sound like Zidaan. I feel like that ruins the name but whatever- not my kid! :P
also what do you mean is it a "nice name"? Is there a criteria defining "nice" that you are aiming to fulfill? What is it?
re: The Big Thread of Baby Names
Shahzar is a Pashto name from what I found. Makes sense that it means "King of" something because Shah means king. Maybe they mispronounced it so you thought it was Shehzar? What about Shahmir/Shahmeer instead? It means King of kings, if I'm not mistaken.