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Lily & Mohammed the real number ones

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pickler · 29/10/2010 15:06

The REAL top names are..

  1. Mohammed - 7528
  2. Oliver - 7364
  3. Jack - 7275
  4. Harry - 6332
  5. Thomas - 5857
  6. Alfie - 5565
  7. Joshua - 5531
  8. Charlie - 5530
  9. William - 5255
10. Daniel - 4670 11. James - 4549 12. George - 4383 13. Samuel - 4346 14. Jacob - 3776 15. Ethan - 3729 16. Joseph - 3677 17. Lucas - 3555 18. Jayden - 3515 19. Dylan - 3478 20. Benjamin - 3319 21. Oscar - 3219 22. Finlay - 3189 23. Lewis - 3114 24. Archie - 3085 25. Alexander - 2997
  1. LILY 5856
  2. OLIVIA 5450
  3. ISABELLE 5165
  4. RUBY 4695
  5. EMILY 4654
  6. CHLOE 4507
  7. SOPHIE 4496
  8. JESSICA 4321
  9. GRACE 4214
10. AMELIA 3692 11. EVIE 3416 12. AMY 3106 13. HOLLY 3051 14. LUCY 2921 15. ELLA 2914 16. MIA 2888 17. ISABELLA 2880 18. AVA 2856 19. CHARLOTTE 2778 20. SOPHIA 2603
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pickler · 29/10/2010 20:36

It took 3 minutes.

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pickler · 29/10/2010 20:35

MOHAMMED 3300
MUHAMMAD 2162
MOHAMMAD 1073
MOHAMED 387
MOHAMAD 33
MOHAMMOD 18
MUHAMMED 515
MUHAMED 27
MUHAMAD 10
MOHMMAD 3

=7528

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CoteDAzur · 29/10/2010 20:29

Oh, to have that kind of time [hgrin]

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pickler · 29/10/2010 20:27

Cote. Take a look at the stats. Add all the Mohammeds together and you will come to the same number. I think whoever said it was number 7 only calculated the Mohammeds in the top 100.

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CoteDAzur · 29/10/2010 20:27

noeyedear -Turkish form of Muhammed would be "Mehmet" which is quite a rare name these days. We do call the Prophet "Muhammed" but I don't remember ever meating a "Muhammed". It would be a very pretentious name, and rather odd. Like meeting a Christian English boy named "Jesus" (I'm aware that it is a name in some other cultures).

onimolap · 29/10/2010 20:25

I've just been a bit geeky: according to National Statistics online and there were 706,248 live births in UK in 2000.

This means that 1.06 % of (all) babies were called Mohammed, and 0.8% Isabel. Presumably you can roughly double the %ages for proportion of boys and proportion of girls.

CoteDAzur · 29/10/2010 20:23

valium - I don't know how OP arrived at Muhammad as no:1 name, but I read just the other day that this name, together with all its reincarnations, was no:7.

hornedtoadjennyp · 29/10/2010 20:06

I've no idea valium but it's all over the news. [hconfused]

jellybeans · 29/10/2010 18:55

I also know of several Mohammeds who go by their middle names day to day but were registered as Mohammed.

I enjoyed reading the combined spellings list, thankyou for posting.

I also know several Aimees and all are said 'Amy' as usual.

valiumskeleton · 29/10/2010 18:53

Are William and Kate getting engaged? Why do they expect that?

hornedtoadjennyp · 29/10/2010 18:50

Well, at least they do report international news and they're not anti-British, particularly. They have also been reporting William and Kate's impending engagement this week! [hconfused] (Sorry to sidetrack the thread)

My ds is an Edward and at 3 resolutely does not want to be called anything else! [hsmile]

neuronsattheready · 29/10/2010 18:25

I'm very suprised not to see Edward on the list!
I come aacross Edwards all over the place... maaybe because they are Eddy/Eddie/Ed/Teddy etc?

valiumskeleton · 29/10/2010 18:25

NBC is no BBC and that's for sure. I watched a clip of a presenter on NBC Texas ask the question 'will the acceptance of gays be the downfall of america?'. I am NOT kidding. Unbelievable. And he was asking it with a straight face as though it were a reasonable question that merited discussion. I'd say they loved reporting that the number one name in the UK is Mohammed. They probably put a juicy little slant on it too.

hornedtoadjennyp · 29/10/2010 18:19

This was on the main evening news in the States last night (nationwide) and they went with the name Mohammed being most popular instead of Oliver. I suppose they may be making a point but I was quite surprised that NBC Nightly News would even mention a bunch of UK statistics.

noeyedear · 29/10/2010 17:25

Sorry, I'm not really illiterate- I'm just too lazy to spellcheck before posting!

PosieComeHereMyPreciousParker · 29/10/2010 17:24

Cote...I had assumed so given it was so high, but then my brain engaged and I thought under eight thousand is probably not such a large percentage afterall.

noeyedear · 29/10/2010 17:23

Yes I thik they are both reasons for the Mohammeds. I suppose the english/Welsh/Polish/Greek all have Christian heritage, so use christian names (although my DS's name is old testament and is commonly used in the Muslim community).

My DH has his family tree and there are whole families called William. It's something to do with property. As thats not the case any more, people probably just name their kids what they like. ( Blaome the Land Registry!) I suppose if there are s many Mohammeds, they must be known by second names.

valiumskeleton · 29/10/2010 17:17

Good idea. Get on that?!

TheHeathenOfSuburbia · 29/10/2010 17:17

Possible solution to these missing Mohammeds Grin:

I worked with a guy called Mohammed middlename surname, who was just called middlename surname on a daily basis. So still officially called mohammed on birth certificate and added to stats.

If this is widespread, would explain why we don't know many boys with the 'most common' name?

foreverastudent · 29/10/2010 17:16

I'd like to see a list where all the long and short versions were added together, eg Ben Benjamin, Lily Lilian etc.

valiumskeleton · 29/10/2010 17:12

Yes DS I think 'our' generation (no idea what age you are, I mean anybody of childbearing age roughly!) is still traumatised from being one of 6 claires in their class. Or Jennies/Suzannes/Karens if you were born in 1970. Insert as applicable ! We're all still recovering from having had two auntie margarets and a mother called barbara and a mil called barbara. (examples here btw, not real names)

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pickler · 29/10/2010 17:10

No. No nicknames and their formal names were combined. Not every Charles is known as Charlie so would be unrealistic to combine them.
Alex, Ben, Sam, Max etc would have been in the top 10 if I'd combined!

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domesticsluttery · 29/10/2010 17:08

Do you list Charlie with Charles?

domesticsluttery · 29/10/2010 17:07

Maybe the "White/English/Scottish/WElsh/Irish/italian/polish/ greek people in the UK" are just using a wider range of names?

For example, looking back in my family tree it seems as though every second boy was called John. If they weren't called John they were called William. A Thomas was incredibly exotic! There must have been whole streets full of children called John. But we now tend to see a common name as a bad thing and so are less likely to choose the same name as everyone else. Maybe in other cultures it is more coomon to choose poular names, in the same way as it was amongst British people 100 years ago?