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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 15:19

Charlie would be Charley, Charlee

Lucas - Lukas, Lucus

Luckily I didn't have to deal with any controversial pronounciations.

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TheFallenMadonna · 29/10/2010 15:19

I'm not disbelieving you! I bet they did it in a hurry...

domesticsluttery · 29/10/2010 15:17
noeyedear · 29/10/2010 15:17

According to The Metro, Mohhammed has 19 different spellings. If you add up all the different spellings, it's No 1.

domesticsluttery · 29/10/2010 15:17

Did you include spellings from outside the top 100?

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pickler · 29/10/2010 15:17

You can check for yourself. They may have only used the Mohammeds in the top 100. There are loads more throughout the whole list.

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sarah293 · 29/10/2010 15:16

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domesticsluttery · 29/10/2010 15:16

How do you decide what constitutes an alternative spelling though?

Am asking as I am genuinely interested.

DS2's name is Siôn, which rarely appears in name lists, but alternative spellings (eg Sean, Shaun etc) are more common.

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pickler · 29/10/2010 15:15

It took a while hence not doing the full top 100!

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TheFallenMadonna · 29/10/2010 15:14

In the Times it said Mohammed/Muhammed came in 7th. They must have added up differently.

Meglet · 29/10/2010 15:14

I do find it interesting. Just imagined it took ages to do!

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pickler · 29/10/2010 15:12

I did the boys and another member did the girls. Why? You seem to be quite shocked.

You may not find it interesting but others may.

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Meglet · 29/10/2010 15:07

Have you just sat there with the spreadsheet and put together all the differently spelled versions of the names Shock ?