Muhammad most popular boys name in UK

[GrandOldTeam]

Hi guys

Where have you been Carlos?

 

[neil999]

wonder how many of these bigots cheer Mo farah when hes on the telly.

not me, i cover my telly in bacon

 

[toffeejack]

Erm, I don't think there's anyone called Emilia in GoT?

hah, nope. the girl who plays daenerys is called emilia. guess that's what they mean? :s

 

[toffeejack]

i don't care how good besic is, my kids will not be named muhammad! ha.

it's already the most popular name in the world, so no surprise if it's the lead in britain, purely because of the religion though. kind of a cheating win. yousuf youhana ffs!

 

[Neiler]

Clearly we have underestimated the impact of Besics signing here!

 

[Tubey]

The obvious solution is for all patriotic white men in the UK to name their children John for the next 20 years. That'll sort it out and teach the 6% Asian population what's what.

VOTE UKIP

 

[Huyton Layne]

"Except that is apparently what the data presented by the website BabyCentre has revealed this morning. These numbers were widely reported, including by the Guardian (we have subsequently updated our news story to make clear that it is a survey and not official national statistics).
The BabyCentre.co.uk names are simply a sample based on 56,157 members of the site who gave birth in 2014. Reporting on this seems to have overlooked that there are comprehensive statistics available from official bodies, although only up to 2013. Those figures show Muhammad was the 15th most popular boys name in England and Wales and the 52nd most popular in Scotland.

The names chosen by a self-selecting group of parents will probably show more about the demographics of the users of that site than the overall trends."

from the guardian.

 

[Prevenger17]

Has anybody tagged @EFCNIK yet?

 

[Del]

Has anybody tagged @EFCNIK yet?

They can't bring him round yet

 

[L4Everton]

So, for 2014 every month was Movember.

 

[EFCNIK]

Tbf it's only so popular because nearly every Muslim boy is called Muhammad. That concentrates the number.

Not that it's not entirely worrying that its the most popular name in this country, but it's also not the end of the world. For now.

 

[ijjysmith]

Like a moth to a flame.

 

[Pienaar's gloves]

Like a moth to a flame.

Impressed that it took him this long!

 

[EFCNIK]

Like a moth to a flame.

I thought this was a measured response Ijj. My month in the gulag has taught me decorum.

And to always use lube.

 

[ijjysmith]

I thought this was a measured response Ijj. My month in the gulag has taught me decorum.

And to always use lube.

It was mate. No offence in my reply meant. Just made me giggle that you went straight for the Scotland thread then this one!