We've all met someone whose name just didn't match them. The name is either too rough, too soft, too open or too conservative for their tastes. Sometimes your best bet as a parent is to go for a gender neutral name to avoid all the conceptions people have attached to Middle Eastern names.

1. Nour

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Coming from the Arabic word "an-nur" meaning the light.

2. Farah

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Coming from the Arabic word "farah" meaning joy and happiness.

3. Majd

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Arabic name meaning glory and praise.

4. Rayyan

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A popular name of multiple origins including Persian, Indian, Irish and Arabic. Coming from the Arabic word "ar-rayan," it means door leading to paradise or heaven's gate.

5. Zein

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Coming from the Arabic word "zayn" meaning beauty and grace.

6. Jamal

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Coming from the Arabic word meaning beauty, it is more common among men but is gender neutral nonetheless.

7. Siham

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Coming from the Arabic word "sahem" meaning arrow.

8. Ehsan

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Coming from the Arabic word meaning perfection and excellence.