10,000 Names for Muslim Babies: Traditional and Modern Boy and Girl Names From Around the World

Ikram Hawramani's 10,000 Names for Muslim Babies is the definitive English-language baby name book for Muslims. The book is the result of five years of research into names acceptable for use by Muslims. Great care has been taken to ensure the correctness of the meanings provided; all meanings have been validated across various dictionaries and references, such as Taj al-Lughah wa Sihaah al-Arabiyyah by Isma'eel bin Hammad al-Jawhari (11th century CE), Lisaan al-Arab by Ibn Manzur (14th century), al-Qamoos al-Muheet by Fairuzabadi (15th century), and contemporary sources such as the Loghatnameh of Dehkhoda, the Sultan Qaboos Encyclopedia of Arab Names, and the Oxford Dictionary of First Names.Besides providing meanings, variant spellings of the names and the occasional historical note are provided. A note is provided for names that are mentioned in the Qur'an (Quranic baby names). For Western converts to Islam wishing to preserve their cultural traditions, hundreds of European names are provided whose meanings are acceptable according to Islamic criteria.The total count of the names is more than 10,000, partly due to the fact that a name can belong to multiple languages, and partly because the actual number of names is more than 10,000. The book would be more accurately titled as "More Than 10,000 Names for Muslim Babies", but this was considered unnecessarily pedantic. The book includes baby names from the following languages, cultures and sources:Arabic (10801 names)Persian (2045 names)English (773 names)Kurdish (197 names)German (170 names)Turkish (166 names)Italian (145 names)French (120 names)Spanish (108 names)Urdu (103 names)Russian (86 names)Irish (84 names)Scandinavian (81 names)Scottish (76 names)Polish (52)Welsh (50)Biblical (45)Portuguese (39 names)Dutch (36 names)Czech (29 names)Latin (28 names)Danish (28 names)Swedish (26 names)Finnish (22 names)Hebrew (21 names)Irish Gaelic (11 names)Scottish Gaelic (11 names)