Most popular new born name in UK is now.......

[les_taxi]

Mohammed!

[Dedworth]

Very worrying

[les_taxi]

Well when we all have to abide by Sharia Law in the future we might stop handwringing

[Michael Parnham]

Mohammed!

Hope this is a joke!

[SimonH]

Has been for the last the last 40 years plus, all male muslim offspring have the first name Mohammed.

[Dedworth]

Has been for the last the last 40 years plus, all male muslim offspring have the first name Mohammed.

Not according to this

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/vsob1/...ames-2013.html

[SimonH]

Not according to this

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/vsob1/...ames-2013.html

Probably something to due with the variants of spelling

http://blogs.channel4.com/factcheck/...muhammad/19457

[joebloggs]

Not according to this

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/vsob1/...ames-2013.html

Can't see any other Arabic names in there apart from Muhammed and Mohammed.

Top 100 Muslim Boy Names:

http://www.top-100-baby-names-search...boy-names.html

[Jamesey]

Well done to SimonH and JoeBloggs for seeing past the scaremongering and focussing on the meaning of the statistics.

[Dedworth]

Well done to SimonH and JoeBloggs for seeing past the scaremongering and focussing on the meaning of the statistics.

If Muhammad, Mohammed, are top and as the report states Omar, Ali, Ibrahim, Maryam and Nur rising then it demonstrates that we are no longer the Western European Christian Caucasian state I was born into.

[joebloggs]

If Muhammad, Mohammed, are top and as the report states Omar, Ali, Ibrahim, Maryam and Nur rising then it demonstrates that we are no longer the Western European Christian Caucasian state I was born into.

It means that there are 1,000s of different boys' names that 'Christians' can choose from .

[Dedworth]

it means that there are 1000s of different boys names that 'Christians' can choose from .

No. It means that the majority of male births are registered with the aforementioned 'M' names which aren't native to this country or continent