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Muhammad replaced William in the top 10 most popular boys' names in 2016 for England and Wales http://ow.ly/Qqt830fhZCp
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2017-09-21, 01:01 PM #1Brewmaster
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Muhammad most popular English boys name 3rd year in a row
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2017-09-21, 01:06 PM #2Stood in the Fire
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2017-09-21, 01:17 PM #3The Undying
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Religious people have traditional families and lots of babies.
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2017-09-21, 01:19 PM #4Titan
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2017-09-21, 01:20 PM #5Bloodsail Admiral
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How is the title even remotely accurate if it is the 8th most popular name only?
Anyways, it is still behind Jacob.
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2017-09-21, 01:27 PM #6Scarab Lord
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The issue here is more the variety of names across cultures. Muhammad is far more dominant %-wise among Islamic communities than 'Biblical' names tend to be in Western/Christian countries. Also a factor that the list of Biblical names is far more extensive. Imagine if every Biblical name (Mark, Jacob, Peter, Joshua, James, Joseph, etc) were all condensed to one single name (they were all named Joshua, for example) which is almost effectively what you have with Muhammad in Islamic cultures.
That and (though this may be much more prevalent in the US, don't know about UK) we just loooovvvveee to have 45 different spellings of the same damn name, which if they account for spelling wildly skews a names popularity. "Hello, I'm Ashley/Ashleigh/Ashlee/Ashlei and this is my sister Caitlin/Caitlyn/Caytlin/Kaitlyn/Katelynn/Kaytlyn!"
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2017-09-21, 01:30 PM #7Pandaren Monk
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Poor, persecuted white people.
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2017-09-21, 01:33 PM #8DeletedIt's a downright lie.
Originally Posted by LMuhlen
The most popular boys name last year was Oliver.
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2017-09-21, 01:33 PM #9Stealthed Defender
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a) it isn't the most popular name
b) popular names change all the time; currently popular names in the US look just as strange to me (e.g. Aiden, Lucas, Noah, Mason, Logan)
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2017-09-21, 01:34 PM #10Over 9000!
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Apparently some people don't understand statistics...
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2017-09-21, 01:36 PM #11Titan
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Oliver is 5th most used in sweden yet i never meet anyone with that name lol Originally Posted by mojojojo101
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2017-09-21, 01:39 PM #12Deleted
obviously it means muslims , or more exactly islamic extremists that all want sharia law are overruning europe, here this is finally undeniable proof , good thing we where warned here and now. or you know what ? all this means is that religious muslims (very often) call theire sons muhammad or a variiation thereof.
yes, there are a lot of them, but guess what ? if every christian in the world would name his son Jesus, absolutely nothing else, every new christian boy born in the world will be named jesus. at that point in time you could take most countries in the world and jesus would top the chart by default.
Obviously it isn't that extreme, and sorry i can't see i see this thread going for a nuanced analyses of what Muhammad/any kind of variation of Muhammad being one of the most popular "english boys" names factually means but anyways. all this really tells us that a lot of parents name theire son after the islamic prophet, probably because they are religious muslims, which like i said doesn't mean much, where most christians more religious and not generally shy of the name there would be a fuck ton of jesus' running around
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2017-09-21, 01:43 PM #13Banned
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Imagine that the most popular names across much of Africa and Asia are European names, even tho those names have no roots in the local languages and cultures. Originally Posted by soulcrusher
Colonialism is OK, but people sticking to their heritage is not. Cool. Good to know.
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2017-09-21, 01:45 PM #14Deleted
It's a pretty name ^^.
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2017-09-21, 01:46 PM #15Banned
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Imagined if you stopped caring about useless topics like this, what could you accomplish in life? Originally Posted by soulcrusher
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2017-09-21, 01:48 PM #16Banned
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Most Europeans give their children, especially boys variations on biblical names, like Peter's and John's and Jacob's and Paul's and Michael's (fuck, my parents are 100% non religious and I'm a Michael, well an ethnic variation of it as my mother is Greek). Then there are all the Maria's and such. There are plenty of Jesus' in the Spanish speaking world. Originally Posted by John Doe 88
Mohammed as a given name is often either part of a compound name or is a middle name. Akin to the Christian custom of "saint's name".
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2017-09-21, 01:49 PM #17Herald of the Titans
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Wait, what am I missing? It says "Oliver remains as the most popular first name given to baby boys in England and Wales in 2016 and has been the most popular boys name since 2013."
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2017-09-21, 01:50 PM #18Immortal
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Just out of interest is that the legit stats? Originally Posted by soulcrusher
In the shop I work during season time, we have named gifts everything from money boxes to keyrings to names in lights etc. We get the most popular names for the previous year for this year. e.g. 2017 is the list from 2016. And We've only got one product with Muhammad in. We've got some 'strange' names in for other foriegn names though.
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2017-09-21, 01:50 PM #19Banned
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The article doesn't make the point, but based on similar reports, you have to combine the different spellings of Mohamed to get it to the top name. Originally Posted by soulcrusher
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2017-09-21, 01:50 PM #20Immortal
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Well that explains why I don't have it in stock then xD Originally Posted by Tijuana
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See above quote I made, wasn't quick enough to post before osmeone else.
