Lily & Mohammed the real number ones

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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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Did you include spellings from outside the top 100?

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

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

Charlie would be Charley, Charlee

Lucas - Lukas, Lucus

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

There has been a lot of talk within the muslim community to have a single spelling of Muhammad.

I'm pleased that the name of the greatest man who ever lived is so popular.

Interesting that no-one has ever asked what it means?

Thats a point- there seem to be a lot of (i presume) polish spellings of names , like Wictoria etc in the list. I don't know if you add those together. The Metro is the bedfellow of the Daily Mail, so I suppose being that Mohammed is such an exclusively Muslim name would mean it makes a better headline than "the most common name in the UK is Paul!"

Do you include names which are the same name in a different language?

For example would you incluse Seamus and Iago in with James?

And actually, looking at it, I would add Isabelle and Isabella together, making that the most polular. I wanted Isabella, but my SIL has called my niece Isabelle. I wouldn't use it because I regard them as the same name essentially.

"I'm pleased that the name of the greatest man who ever lived is so popular."

Pointless thing to write and patently untrue.

Aren't all first born Muslim boys called Muhammed?

I'd actually put money on the most popular name, if you counted up all the spellings and versions (Siôn, Sean, Ioan, Shaun, Evan, Hans, Ewan, Jack, Jan, Ivan, Johan, Jean, Gianni etc etc) is actually John

Which wouldn't make that exciting a headline!

Another MNer did the girls but she said that she followed the same principles as I, which were not to include the hyphenated names nor the short or long forms of names (Bens were not added to Benjamins).

Yes DS - very interesting but I bet not many people know that they are versions of John.

Names pronounced the same way - I'm guessing that was the basis.

eg Isabel/Isobel/Isabelle. They are all the same really aren't they?

Amy/Aimee

Lily Lilly Lillie.

No, Posie, all first born Muslim boys are not called Mohammad/Muhammed.

Why are there so many?! Is there some sort of pressure/tradition to call at least one son Mohammed?

Exactly valium.