Arabic Name from English Generator

Many English names already have an Arabic twin because they descend from the same Hebrew, Aramaic or Greek originals. John, Mary, Joseph, David, Abraham, Moses, Solomon and Gabriel appear in the Quran and in Arabic Christian tradition as Yahya, Maryam, Yusuf, Dawud, Ibrahim, Musa, Sulayman and Jibril. Names of saints and apostles have Arabic Christian forms too: Peter is Butrus, Paul is Bulus, George is Jirjis, and Anthony is Antun. These are true equivalents, not translations.

For names without a shared root, there are two honest approaches. The first is meaning: Grace becomes Ni'ma, Faith becomes Iman, Hope becomes Amal, Rose becomes Warda, Victor becomes Mansur, and Leo becomes Asad or Layth (both meaning lion). The second is sound: Richard to Rashid, Kevin to Kamil, Nancy to Nadia, Jessica to Jamila. Sound matches are what people usually mean by 'my name in Arabic', and they're common when someone converts, marries into an Arab family, or wants an Arabic nickname.

Each entry shows the English name and its Arabic counterpart, tagged by cognate, meaning or sound where the type isn't obvious. Note that transliterating an English name into Arabic script (e.g. writing Michael as مايكل) is a different thing again; this list gives you native Arabic names rather than spellings.