Name Spellings

I have a number of names I’m considering (even though I probably won’t have kids for at least 5 more years), but they are largely transliterated from Arabic into the Latin alphabet, so there are lots of spelling variations which I keep going back and forth on. Can you give your opinion on which spelling of each name you prefer? Thanks!

Boys:

[name_u]Isa[/name_u] or [name_m]Esa[/name_m]

[name_m]Ilias[/name_m] or Ilyas

Sufian or [name_m]Sufyan[/name_m]

[name_m]Yusuf[/name_m] or [name_m]Yusef[/name_m] or [name_m]Yousef[/name_m] or [name_m]Yousuf[/name_m] (lots of variation on this one!)

[name_m]Yunus[/name_m] or Younus or Younes

Girls:

[name_f]Noora[/name_f] or [name_f]Noura[/name_f] or [name_f]Nura[/name_f]

Hira or Heera

[name_f]Sofia[/name_f] or Safiya

Safina or Sofina

Saffah or [name_f]Saffa[/name_f] or [name_f]Safa[/name_f]

These are my favorites, most of the spellings I picked make the pronunciations more clear:

[name_m]Esa[/name_m], [name_m]Ilias[/name_m], Sufian, [name_m]Yusef[/name_m] and [name_m]Yunus[/name_m]

[name_f]Nura[/name_f], Hira, Safiya, Safina and Saffah

[name_u]Isa[/name_u]
Ilyas
[name_m]Sufyan[/name_m]
[name_m]Yousef[/name_m]
Younes
[name_f]Noora[/name_f]
Hira

(I’m not sure if you pronounce Safiya and [name_f]Sofia[/name_f] the same?)

Safina
[name_f]Saffa[/name_f]

[name_u]Isa[/name_u] (I’m assuming an ee-suh pronunciation)
Ilyas
[name_m]Sufyan[/name_m]
[name_m]Yousef[/name_m]
Younes

[name_f]Noora[/name_f]
Hira
Safiya
Safina
Saffah

[name_m]How[/name_m] do you pronounce [name_u]Isa[/name_u]/[name_m]Esa[/name_m]? If you’re pronouncing it Eye-sa then I’d go with the spelling [name_u]Isa[/name_u]. But if you’re pronouncing it Ee-sa then I’d go with [name_m]Esa[/name_m].

[name_m]Ilias[/name_m]

[name_m]Yusef[/name_m]

[name_m]Yunus[/name_m]

Sufian

[name_f]Noora[/name_f]

[name_m]How[/name_m] do you pronounce Hira/Heera? If you pronounce it High-ruh then I’d go with the spelling Hira. But if you’re pronouncing it Here-ruh then I’d spell it Heera.

[name_f]Sofia[/name_f]

Sofina

[name_f]Saffa[/name_f]