"ISTANBUL": THE MOST POPULAR NAME FOR BABY GIRLS IN SOMALIA

[idol]

Haters!

That's my mother's name.

[Navy9]

I do have relatives with the names of istanbul, asia, filisten and have seen it outside of my family too. But one name that tops them all is a relative of mine with the name bilaad...that seems quite odd to me

in case you do not know arabic, bilaad means countries, plural of balad (a country).

[ZubeirAwal]

I know lots of Asiya (Asia)

Asiya was the faithful wife of Fircoon

i was gonna say this,btw is it only somali's who go by that name?

[Navy9]

No

[Samatr]

I know what you mean. Just because we are muslims doesn't necessarily mean we have to abandon our culture, customs, traditions and way of life. Somalis are trying so hard to mimick arabs, who themselves are trying so hard to mimick the westerners. it is disgusting. They can't differentiate Islam from Arab culture. They are not the same people. You will rarely see Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Malaysian muslims named Arab names, they all have their indigenous names. But Somalis 98 percent of the times have Arab names. Some of you will point out how it is not arab names but rather Islamic name but Somali names if equally as beautiful.

My favorite Somali names is Ubax, Gulled, Sharmarke and Shankaroon.

[DisplacedDiraac]

BTW WestLdn, Yurub is a somali name it doesn't mean Europe. I think it's some sort of tree or something.

I didn't know that.. I thought they were Soomaalifying the word 'Europe'..
I still dont like the name though..

[Beenaale_No1]

Shankaroon = 5 kroners

Not a suitable name if you live in Scandinavia

[ciyaal_warta]

Only wannabe reer magaals name their kid after cities or even worse foreign valuta i.e Istarliin

back in the days i saw a lady named falastiiin i was laughing my ars off sxb...eedo ma mid falastiini maa ku qaba

[Beenaale_No1]

i can see why they name their daughter after famous cities like Berlin and Istanbul. But why the phuck Falastiin? Your naming your child after an occupied state

[Kukri]

So doest that mean no more Museveni name for boys.

[ciyaal_warta]

i can see why they name their daughter after famous cities like Berlin and Istanbul. But why the phuck Falastiin? Your naming your child after an occupied state

dont know why i was thinking the same ..waliba i lived among falastinians and i dont like their attitudes ...i was shocked to see falastiiin magac ah

So doest that mean no more Museveni name for boys.

so far Malez and Museveni is the top names among boiz..we are expecting a competition soon the name Erdogan will replace them

[fatimazahra]

i saw a somali lady called "iraq"

[TheLoFather]

my friend's mother is called Ruwaanda and I have an aunt called Inglan

[ciyaal_warta]

my friend's mother is called Ruwaanda and I have an aunt called Inglan

well ruwaanda takes the cup