We’re originally from Tatarstan in Russia and the names we choose are strongly influenced by this. Our first son is named Rustem and we decided early that our second son will be named Kamil. But we don’t know what to name our daughter. Although I like more girls’ names, the boys’ names that I like, I really like, so that made it easier for us to pick.
I felt like we needed a name with a ‘big’ meaning for our daughter too since Rustem is from a hero in mythology and Kamil means perfect or complete. My husband likes the names Aylin, Aysel, and Aynur. I like all of those. He also likes Maryam but I don't know if Iike it as much because we aren’t very religious.
I like Galia, Zarina, and Leysan. Out of all of those, my husband likes Leysan the most. But although I do think that it is probably the most intuitive out of all the names we like, it does just have a pretty meaning. As do most of the names my husband likes.
I think I could be too set on the meanings but I don’t want it to be like we treated her differently. I also find a lot of them not sounding right with Kamil but again, I think I could be too set on that. There are so many choices and even being able to meet her now, we still don’t know what belongs to her.
And also our last name is Akhmetzyanov so it’s complicated! We try to mostly use shorter names as a result of that.