Beggars belief doesn't it.

Frightening thing is that I'm not even shocked or surprised by that.

well my baby boy will be here in 7 weeks
and im calling him Ashton

I read that in the paper today but cos there are 10 ways of spelling it, it didn't make the top 5... Oliver was top wasn't it, and Olivia for girls - looks like parents were lacking imagination this year or summat

Not what one would call traditional is it ..

That's a great name tina. I just hope your surname isn't Under Lyne

I like the name Clement

Or In-Makerfield

Sebastien has a nice ring to it.

Sebastien Mohammed McKay.

Don't you mean Sebastian? I used to know someone called that. He was a right Se'bast'ian as it happens.

Not true.

The actual name was Oliver then Jack or summat...however, the right wing press decided that if they took every different version of Mohammed and added them all together then it would be Mohammed.

But if I took every different version of "Jack" e.g Jackson, Jacques, Jacson...or if you wanna be a reet tit about it John (as Jack is a John derivative) then Jack remains above Mohammed. Just using "Oliver" and "Ollie" ALONE (no other derivates) puts it BACK ABOVE Mohammed.

Added to that Mohammed (or a variation of) is THE most common name given to Muslim boys, a huuuuge percentage of Muslims give their first born boys the name Mohammed-then another name as a middle name which the kid will commonly be known by.  No such tradition exists in the UK...this also skews the figures.

People who are cleverer than me can explain better.

    http://enemiesofreason.co.uk/2...ng-over-or-are-they/
http://nosleeptilbrooklands.bl...meds-are-coming.html

Isn't that, well... cheating? 

Oddly enough my elder grandson was included in the democratic process of name choosing for his new young brother. He chose Muhammed after his best pal. We came to a compromise within the family and chose the equally valid middle eastern name, Noah!

My landlady has just called her baby girl Elsie

Nah...unless I'm missing your point I know loads of folk who are more known by a middle name.

In any case, you need 12 different versions of Mohammed to arrive at "Mohammed is the most common name" (7,549) and only 2 versions of Oliver/Ollie to arrive at Oliver/Ollie as the top name(7,875)

well leccy - I have to confess that I am now completely confused by it all

I like Noah   I'm fond of biblical names, they age better (mostly)

Which is just what "they" want, innit *twitches*

Just the press trying to wind us all up really!
If you fall for it then more fool you...if you saw through their scam then, kudos to you

ow i like cain .......... keeping with the bible theme 

Thats a cool name 

LTNS!

Innit.

Any case, even if there were 10 Mohammeds to every nursery class, a name is just a name *drifts off into Romeo and Juliet land*

I had a "Damien Lucifer" in my class, he was a little sweetheart and happy as a pig in shite, as we say up here.

That's one of my party tricks from 1980. What do you call a man with a bit of ham on his head? Mohammed. Geddit?!

Karms that was terrible 

There's more! *does Jimmy Cricket dance*

What do you call a man with a spade in his hand? Doug
What do you call a woman with one leg longer than the other? Eileen
What do you call a woman with two legs the same length? Noleen

Boom boom!

*shoots Karma* 

If you insist........ What do you call a woman with a chimney on her head?



Roof! HaHa geddit? Etc.

My friends Lulu, Cliff and Douglas wanna word with you K

*loses will to live* 

Now that is interesting...

When you really look at it, the most interesting thing about this "names" list is that it clearly shows how common shortened names and derivatives/unusual spellings have become.

Remember: it used to be the case that you weren't allowed to register a shortened name. For example, "Alfie" (4th on this year's list) and Charlie (7th) would have had to have been registered as "Alfred" and "Charles" respectively (and of course the same would have applied to Ollie/Oliver).
If anything, it's this "diversification" that's caused a number of "classic" names to slip down the table...

My son was Mohammed for a day, when he lost his name badge at M&S.

Ello woman xx
When I was born they told my mum I was a boy and I was called David

I expect you were making too much of a fuss, or something!

Hello EL

*I wrote a big long post then pressed back by accident and lost it*

The gist was...I recall there is/was some Euro country where names have to be picked from an approved list...urban myth maybe? (I was much better in my original post )

Plus we can cherry pick "facts"  trad. Irish and Welsh names are increasingly common, if we took into account every spelling variation, shortened version and derivative we could, if we wanted to, say that there was a huuuuge Taff army hell bent on the "Welshification" of England.

*Here is where I waffled a bit more and made more sense*

*Here is where I said hello to Blizz and K*  

*Here is where I waffled a bit more and made less sense but knew what I meant and said if "approved" versions only were used the results would be heavily skewed in favour of so-called traditional "British" names...and then waffled that "British" names were nothing of the sort.

I have two Jewish, one Italian and one German children.


None of them is common, although their names may be.


*This is where I snog the Leccy*

*This is where I swoon*

I have 1 Jewish and 1 erm....Scottish    Daft though isn't it? Why are some Abrahamic names better than others. Meeeeeeeeeeeeeehhh. Worraloadofoletosh.

Mary is ok but Maryam and/or Miriam is scary.

My neighbour is a Miriam, and she is dead scary!  


In my parents' day, you had to have a Christian name, i.e. Biblical, or a saint's name, to be christened.  Naming children after their parents, and grandparents etc. was also traditional. Lots of my older relatives were never known by their first names, as they weren't really the chosen names, but were deemed appropriate for various reasons.

You're probably thinking of Sweden, where all names have to be approved.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_law_in_Sweden

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Love it!  


I believe that there is also a similar law regarding names here, although certain children of celebrities may not think so.