Name game: Mohammed is now the most popular name for new-born boys (picture posed by model)
Posted on 10/28/2010 2:56:57 PM PDT by NYer
Mohammed has become the most popular name for newborn boys in Britain.
It shot up from third the previous year, overtaking Jack, which had topped the list for the past 14 years but was relegated to third spot.
Olivia topped the list for little girls for the second year in a row, behind Ruby and Chloe.
A total of 7,549 newborns were given 12 variations of the Islamic prophet Mohammed’s name last year, such as Muhammad and Mohammad.
Name game: Mohammed is now the most popular name for new-born boys (picture posed by model)
The second most popular boy’s name, Oliver, was given to 7,364 babies.
Harry and Alfie came in fourth and fifth place respectively.
The official list, which covers all births in 2009 in England and Wales, has Mohammed at number 16 but this does not include the many different spellings, which are all ranked separately.
When they are added in, Mohammed zooms all the way up to top spot for the first time.
In order of popularity, the variant spellings used during the year were: Muhammad, Mohammad, Muhammed, Mohamed, Mohamad, Muhamed, Mohammod, Mahamed, Muhamad, Mahammed and Mohmmed.
There are still other possible spellings but these were not used for births in England and Wales in 2009. Regionally, the single spelling of Mohammed came top of the list for the West Midlands.
Since 1999 the number of babies called Mohammed, however spelled, has increased by more than half.
In 1999 the name was given to 4,579 newborns.
Going even further back, the single spelling Mohammed appeared at 73 in the list in 1964 and 87th in 1944.
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Mad Mo, the murdering child rapist. Sad.
Mohammed Nigel Buttlesworth?
In contrast, Gay sex-shop marketing reports that “Jack Harry Mohammed” is the top-drawing marketing slogan..
At least it’s not Barack...
Not sure this is saying all that much, sane people aren’t interested in having every childs name be the same.
That’s what happens when a once-great nation abandons God and procreation for secularism, socialism and hedonism. You get a flood of radical immigrants named Mohammed taking over.
Already posted here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2615514/posts
I like Olivia, that’s pretty. But Mohammed, ack!
This sounds worse than it is, although it is not good news in any way. The muslims in uk tend to be pakistanis and indians. Almost 100% of the boys are given that name. So when you have a group that all name thier kids the same thing, that name will move up fast on the list.
BTW, I don’t know that I have ever known anyone named Oliver..
They failed to report that during the previous two decades, “Dumas” was the previous most popular name. Leading to the current top ten.
I have always seen Mohammed as a dog’s name.
Obama is a good dog’s name too.
Being from a large Catholic family, with parents who were both from a large Catholic family, my extended family reads like a who’s who of the Apostles for men, and “I’ll take famous women of the Bible for $1,000 Alex.” :)
on the other hand, at least they aren’t naming their kids ‘Barack’ or ‘Michelle’
That’s fine as there are plenty of names to choose from in teh Bible. Muslims all want the same name, even brothers will often all be named Mohammed. Madness.
missed that comment by ‘this’ much.
Here’s a somewhat amusing story:
When I was a little girl of 10, my family moved to a new neighborhood in NYC, and there was a boy there who everybody called, “Ollie.”
I went for YEARS thinking his name was “Oliver,” but it turned out “Ollie” was really “Ali,” and he was the only blond-headed blue-eyed Turk I’ve ever seen.
BTW...he has two brothers, who everybody called “Bill” and “Tim,” both of which were Americanizations of Turkish names. (Didn’t know THAT for years, either...LOL)
Don’t be too hard on me. I was young and Muslim (last) names weren’t as common as they are now.
Regards,
You want Mo?
How sad. Good bye U.K. It was fun.
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