Mohammed #1 in Britain

[Eki]

Interestingly the rank of Mohammed started to drop in 2001 until 2007 but is now becoming more popular again:

http://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/babyname.cgi

My name wasn't in the top 1000 names for any year of birth in the last 10 years. I'm disappointed.

[MrJan]

Trust the Mail to move the goalposts so that they can be outraged:

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.

[Mark]

Trust the Mail to move the goalposts so that they can be outraged:

Even if Mohammed were no.1 what does it prove? As said upthread islamic families often call their children Mohammed and then actually call them by their second name.

If you have 100 children each with different names and 2 of them are called Mohammed then that's going to be No.1!

[Eki]

Interestingly Abel ranked 328th last year but Cain wasn't even in the top 1000.

[Eki]

Jon ranked 593rd. That should raise some brows.

[Brown, Jon Brow]

Jon ranked 593rd. That should raise some brows.

We are a dying breed

[janneppi]

The only obvious thing to do is to kill everyone, right now. Start with A's and move back to Z. No more name problems.

But who the hell calls names their kid Alfie?

[CaptainRaiden]

Mohammed and it's variants is now the #1 name choice for newborn males in Britain.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ack-Harry.html

Lol, the clock ticks away.

[Firstgear]

As said upthread islamic families often call their children Mohammed....

In the US, they use the name Darryl in the same way.

Remember the Bob Newhart show.... "this is my brother Darryl, and this is my other brother Darryl."

I once worked with a guy from the middle east whose first name was Ali. He had two brothers that were also named Ali, but they all went by their middle names.

[schmenke]

Interestingly the rank of Mohammed started to drop in 2001 until 2007 but is now becoming more popular again:

http://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/babyname.cgi

My name wasn't in the top 1000 names for any year of birth in the last 10 years. I'm disappointed.

My name is 191st on the list, and has been steadily dropping in popularity in recent years (must be because of Mohammed : ).

I'm surprised to see my first born's first and middle names both in the top 10 female list. I thought we had been fairly creative in selecting them .
My second born's first name is not in the top 1000, and her second name barely makes it, although both are variants of their more popular english spellings .