What would you name your children?

[Хahar 🤔]

Bengali Muslims, as a rule, give their children Persian or Arabic names. (Sometimes girls will receive Russian names if they sound sufficiently Indian.) Any children that I were to have would also have names like this. I am not particularly concerned about comprehensibility; I have never had an issue with my name, and any Persian or Arabic name that sounds fine rendered in Bengali will also sound fine in English.

I have noticed that people roughly my age who grew up here tend to give their kids very overtly Islamic names of the sort that their parents did not use. My mother has a friend with a grandson named Musa and another with a grandson named Isa. I don't know any adults with those names. My mother is now very religious and wishes that she had given her sons religious names of that sort. I don't intend to.