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Ridikzappa 7:51 Wed Sep 20
Muhammad Is Top English Baby Name for Fifth Year Running

"And whoever emigrates for the cause of Allah will find on the earth many [alternative] locations and abundance.

And whoever leaves his home as an emigrant to Allah and His Messenger and then death overtakes him - his reward has already become incumbent upon Allah .

And Allah is ever Forgiving and Merciful." Qur'an, 4:100

http://trib.al/CUICSOu

tr3bor 7:55 Wed Sep 20
Re: Muhammad Is Top English Baby Name for Fifth Year Running

When I was a kid, there were loads called Mark, Paul or Scott.

Never a Muhammed.

BRANDED 8:01 Wed Sep 20
Re: Muhammad Is Top English Baby Name for Fifth Year Running

Girls names
1. Olivia - 5,017
2. Amelia - 4,777
3. Emily - 3,551
4. Isla - 3,476
5. Ava - 3,285
6. Isabella - 2,729
7. Lily - 2,722
8. Jessica - 2,703
9. Ella - 2,702
10. Mia - 2,662
Boys names
1. Oliver - 6,623
2. Harry - 5,284
3. George - 5,263
4. Jack - 4,751
5. Jacob - 4,485
6. Noah - 4,305
7. Charlie - 4,190
8. Muhammad - 3,908
9. Thomas - 3,898
10. Oscar - 3,894

What I found funny about this was Oliver and Olivia. All being really fucking posh cuntyness.

joe blob 8:14 Wed Sep 20
Re: Muhammad Is Top English Baby Name for Fifth Year Running

I see George is a popular name. Parents are too lazy to sew his name into his clothing so they buy at Asda.

gph 8:30 Wed Sep 20
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Posh names: one study showed

"He notes that there are more than three times as many Eleanors at Oxford than we might expect, given the frequency of that first name among girls in the general population, and Peters, Simons and Annas are not far behind. Conversely, there is less than a 30th of the expected number of Jades and an even smaller proportion of Paiges and Shannons. An Eleanor is 100 times more likely to go to Oxford than a Jade.
However, there is no evidence that it's the names causing such a marked discrepancy, rather than other factors they represent, Clark says. Different names are popular among different social classes, and these groups have different opportunities and goals."

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"That's something that's emerged in modern England that didn't exist around 1800," he says. When he re-ran his study, but this time looking at students attending Oxford and Cambridge in the early 19th Century, he found the correlation between names and university attendance far less marked. First names simply weren't the social signifiers they are now."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26634477

Saul Bollox 8:54 Wed Sep 20
Re: Muhammad Is Top English Baby Name for Fifth Year Running

When I worked in a prison I speculated that Darren or Dean would be the most common names there. When we looked it up it was Mohammed or similar spelling that easily outstripped the English chav names.

Sven Roeder 8:55 Wed Sep 20
Re: Muhammad Is Top English Baby Name for Fifth Year Running

Obviously lots of fans of Cassius Clay still about
* floats like a butterfly , spits in the street*

lowermarshhammer 9:01 Wed Sep 20
Re: Muhammad Is Top English Baby Name for Fifth Year Running

School football team normally had three or four regulars but one time lined up with 6 (six) Pauls.

Not sure who was the most confused, us or the opposing mob.

wanstead_hammer 9:09 Wed Sep 20
Re: Muhammad Is Top English Baby Name for Fifth Year Running

Sven - haha
Lowermarsh - haha. Lucky it weren't a clay pigeon shooting team.

gph 9:10 Wed Sep 20
Re: Muhammad Is Top English Baby Name for Fifth Year Running

Paul - 6th most common boys' name in Austria
- 286th in England

(slightly out of date figures from https://www.behindthename.com/name/paul)

Mad Dog 9:20 Wed Sep 20
Re: Muhammad Is Top English Baby Name for Fifth Year Running

My name is Paul. Very popular in the 70s

No new babies get that name now

Nurse Ratched 9:22 Wed Sep 20
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Mad Dog.

What are the current 'feral little bastard' boy and girl names among your pupils? Teachers are good value for this sort of info.

geoffpikey 9:30 Wed Sep 20
Re: Muhammad Is Top English Baby Name for Fifth Year Running

"Parents are too lazy to sew his name into his clothing so they buy at Asda"

They got lucky. Just ask my mate Mr Byrite.

Nurse Ratched 9:31 Wed Sep 20
Re: Muhammad Is Top English Baby Name for Fifth Year Running

Or ask my daughter, Sue Ryder.

joe royal 9:32 Wed Sep 20
Re: Muhammad Is Top English Baby Name for Fifth Year Running

La trell or some other unique name .

I have three friends all called Gary.

sanfrancis-co-uk 9:38 Wed Sep 20
Re: Muhammad Is Top English Baby Name for Fifth Year Running

I'm a Paul.Lots of my friends are as well.

Common as muck.

Orange Hammer 9:45 Wed Sep 20
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I once saw my local football team and there were 3 Hansens and 4 Nielsens

Fifth Column 9:55 Wed Sep 20
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This is not a good indication of Muslims taking over I'm afraid Ridi you halfwit, it's an indication of the fact that it's tradition for Muslims to name sons Muhammad so a massive percentage are given that name and then a different middle name... hence no obviously Muslim sounding names in the girls list as there is not one name that loads of them get called.

Hope that helps.

gph 9:57 Wed Sep 20
Re: Muhammad Is Top English Baby Name for Fifth Year Running

Fifth - the stat isn't even true.

Mo comes in at 8th in the all-England listing.

It's only in London and the West Midlands that Mo tops the list.

Far Cough 10:08 Wed Sep 20
Re: Muhammad Is Top English Baby Name for Fifth Year Running

Fifth is right, I remember looking at the crew list of the ship I worked on and about 99% of the Banglas had Mohammed as one of their names, I think it's a religious thing?

Vexed 10:11 Wed Sep 20
Re: Muhammad Is Top English Baby Name for Fifth Year Running

Sounds like as time goes on the chance of a Mohammad ploughing through your daughters increases. What do you think about that Brexiters? Funny eh?

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