Mohammed is most popular name for baby boys in UK

[JonAsad]

Topping the list for the most popular name given to newborn boys in Britain is Mohammed, followed by Oliver, Jack, Harry and Alfie.

Mohammed had been placed third last year, but now has come first after overtaking the name Jack, which had topped the list for the past 14 years and is now in third spot, the Daily Mail reported.

A total of 7,549 newborns were given 12 variations of the Islamic prophet Mohammed's name last year, such as Muhammad and Mohammad, with the spelling of Mohammed topping the list for the West Midlands.

In order of popularity, the variant spellings used were, Muhammad, Mohammad, Muhammed, Mohamed, Mohamad, Muhamed, Mohammod, Mahamed, Muhamad, Mahammed and Mohmmed.

The second most popular boy's name, Oliver, was given to 7,364 babies, and Olivia topped the list for little girls for the second year in a row, behind Ruby and Chloe.

Mohammed is most popular name for baby boys in UK

 

[FreekiN]

Did you know that Ahmad and Mustafa are also variants of "Mohammed"?

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

It is a good name.

 

[Water Car Engineer]

Mohammed is the most popular name in the world I think. I know 3 people named Mohammed, Mohamed, Muhammed. One from Sudan, Pakistan, and Jordan.

 

[Avatar]

Mohammed is actually the world's most common name. I read it in a book long ago. It has always been the most common name.

 

[DesiGuy]

my one of favorite names is eli!

 

[true_indian]

I have 5-6 friends with that name in India. And lot more with 'mohammad' as their middle name.

 

[paritosh]

every third muslim I know...is a Md. something...

 

[Areesh]

Well my first is name is also Mohammed. And I always loved it.

 

[v9s]

the original source of this 'news' is from the Daily Fai...i mean Mail.

1. Muslims are less than 3% of the population in the UK.

2. Here's the official stat: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/names1010.pdf

and it lists Oliver as the most popular.

 

[eric_cartman]

I already know it since movie "superbad" was released

 

[s90]

It also shows that muslims have more birth rate in UK than the rest of population.

 

[Ahmad]

Mohammad is a nice name, but the news is not a good one. Compare to the over all population in britain, muslims are small, but yet the name they use for their babies comes on top of the list, it means we are producing more and more kids, that is not so good. we need to have less but quality kids.

 

[Spring Onion]

we need to have less but quality kids.

oh come on i have seen even 5 or 6 kids in a family and all of them are quality kids.

lolzz

 

[Hyde]

oh come on i have seen even 5 or 6 kids in a family and all of them are quality kids.

lolzz

One of my friend has 32 brothers and sisters and he is basically from Somalia............ and the most interesting part is.......... Everybody is well educated

(I don't think there is any of his brother or sister that I know is not well educated so......)

And I am not joking, thats a fact - He had 4 mothers