Posted on 12/19/2007 8:33:51 AM PST by george76
FOR the last 13 years it has reigned supreme as the most popular boy's name in the land.
But in multicultural Britain, children named after the Muslim prophet Mohammed could soon be outnumbering the long-time favourite Jack.
In a reflection of the increasing influence of Islam on UK society, figures released by the Office of National Statistics yesterday showed that the most popular spelling of the name - Mohammed - had climbed five places to 17th in the annual list of most popular baby names.
But when the seven other spellings of the name are taken into account, the total amounted to 6,347 babies, making it the second-most popular name of the year - up from 5,936 last year.
Although Jack topped the list with 6,772 babies, that figure fell 156 on last year, meaning that if the trends were repeated next year, Mohammed and its variant spellings would be the most popular choice in England and Wales.
The last national census in 2001 put the UK Muslim population at 1.6million, but this will have grown substantially in the past five years.
(Excerpt) Read more at thisislondon.co.uk ...
Londonistan
I am so glad that I don’t live there any more.
I’m thinking of naming my next dog mohammed.
Is there any place in the UK to visit ?
Maybe Toys’R’Us should come out with a Mohamed Teddy Bear.
Read this article and commentary
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=503195&in_page_id=1770
then watch this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqHUdwePfbM&eurl=http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/
I fear for England.
Why would anyone name their son shi’ite?
Guess they'll start calling it the "Union Muhammed" now.
Warning...
MUTE the sound for the video.
The academic elites got their way. Multiculturalism is triumphing. Western values will soon be snuffed out because those who were raised to hate them got what they wanted.
Those who can will escape to America.
lol
Mohamed Teddy Bear.
That what we call what our dog leaves in the yard....
I know some of them. They are angry that they don't have the same access to government freebies here as they had in Merry Old England.
The sheer number of traditional British first names available will naturally result in a distribution of the names chosen which leads to fewer each of boys named Jack, George, William, Charles, etc. even though there are more of them in total.
Big deal. 3% of Britain is fanatically set on one name for boys.
If the other 97% called their sons just one name, then they would be cretinous fanatics as well. But no, they choose to use a variety of names, and so the fanatics get 2nd place.
Try naming a Teddy Bear mohammad....(chuckle)
Well said.
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