Mohammed is most popular name for baby boys in London

[Thorum]

Prepare to feel ill:

"London is not the first European capital (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/6194354/Mohammed-is-most-popular-name-for-baby-boys-in-London.html) to see Mohammed become the number one name for baby boys. In Brussels, Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Oslo the name has already gained the top slot."

and

"Other ONS data from its July to September 2008 Labour Force Survey shows the Muslim population is growing 10 times faster than the rest of the population. Last year more than 2.4 million people identified themselves as Muslims, according to the survey's findings, up more than 500,000 in four years. In the same period the number of Christians fell by more than 2 million, to 42.6 million."

[Loddfafner]

I bet few, if any, are as colorful as Mohammad Marmaduke Pikthall. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmaduke_Pickthall)

[Sol Invictus]

And who's to blame for making the policies for allowing these people into our countries..? Sure, turn your ire against the Muslims for being there, but get to the root of the problem and you deracinate it once and for all. I don't blame the hordes that pour into the breach that was open for all to see. Dig a little deeper and you find out who's responsible for causing that breach in the wall.

[Brännvin]

I honestly doubt it..

London have an immigrant problem, Ok, I don't deny it, however, even Muzzies are already adoting English names..

Top 100 names for baby boys in England and Wales (http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/questions/names.htm)

[Puddle of Mudd]

Mohammed is most popular name for baby boys in London

That's certainly not good...

[Skandi]

I honestly doubt it..

London have an immigrant problem, Ok, I don't deny it, however, even Muzzies are already adoting English names..

Top 100 names for baby boys in England and Wales (http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/questions/names.htm)

The problem with that list is that they place the different spellings of Mohammed as different names, if you add them up it is second in the country.

[Beorn]

I honestly doubt it..

There is nothing to doubt.


even Muzzies are already adoting English names..In all my years of having encountered Muslims, I have yet to meet or hear of a Muslim with the name of Jack, Thomas, Harry, Oliver, etc... It is always from their own culture.

The reason that Muhammad..or should that be Mohammad? or perhaps Mohammed? or...ah well, spelling doesn't matter..or does it?

The real top ten of boys names in England and Wales.


This week, the Office of National Statistics published a list of the most popular boys' names in Britain: Jack, Oliver, Thomas, Harry, Joshua, Alfie, Charlie, Daniel.

They reflect a cultural tradition as old as the nation's history, and would provoke approving nods from Jack the Ripper, Oliver Cromwell (http://explore.dailymail.co.uk/people/cromwell_oliver), Thomas Becket and Harry Hotspur.

There is just one small problem: the list is deceitful. In reality, the third most popular choice for boy children born last year in England and Wales (http://explore.dailymail.co.uk/locations/countries/wales) was not Thomas, but Mohammed.

The ONS explains blithely that it had no intent to deceive. Its normal practice is to catalogue different spellings separately, as in Mohammed, Muhammed and so on.

But if you add these variants together, as surely seems logical, then Mohammed is right up there, near the top of the list.

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Read more here. (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/columnists/article-1212368/Mohammed-popular-boys-England-So-shabby-effort-conceal-it.html)

[Brynhild]

I nearly spat out my coffee! :eek::mad: