Just a Mo.

[anotheoldgit]

http://tinyurl.com/37y77ue

Will most new parents follow the popular trend and call their new baby Mohammed?

What if it's a girl, what then?

[boxtops]

LOL tonyted, but you only have to add that to the original one, not all the new ones!

[B00]

I'm really confused then (yes I know, easily done)

If it's the most popular name for newborns, yet Muslims only make up 3% of the UK's population, can we assume that white people are now calling their children that? And if so...why?

[kammalla]

Mohammedine?

[boxtops]

Lots of Muslim people (white and other colours) call at least one of their boys Mohammed - I guess we have such a massive range to choose from that it takes a lot of naming to get "our" names into the list. If most Muslim familiies had one in each generation of each family, that's a lot of Mohammeds.

[B00]

That makes sense Boxy, ta :-)

[Clanad]

I think kammalla is on the right trail... but I also think Mohammedette has a nice ring to it, no?

[fredpuli47]

Oliver was the second most common name for a baby boy, with ( it seems), almost as many entries as the twelve versions of Mohammed combined. The country will be overrun with Olivers too. What about that AOG? What kind of awful people call their child Oliver? All those huntin', shootin' and fishin' types, all Public School and 'something in the City' if not living on the trust fund. Frightens me! They'll be all over the place, with their horrible braying and cries of 'Ya!', terrifying the British working class.They keep themselves to themselves, you know, and are never truly integrated . And they don't learn our language,but have their own strange one, nor do they pronounce ours correctly, the older ones living in a 'hice' and all of them having 'a place', not a 'house'. Stop it now, before it's too late.

A Moslem boy has to be given a name with religious meaning. Mohammed is understandably conventional and particularly common among the Moslems here.

[123everton]

Everyone should marry a Muslim!
According to Geezer and AOG they all bang like out house doors.

[fredpuli47]

According to The Times, citing the Office for National Statistics,Mohammed is 16th for boys but in all its different spellings it is 7th, not 1st as the Dailty Mail says. I wonder which of the papers got the correct total from the ONS figures?

[Ric.ror]

If I get made redundant I am getting a dog and I would like to call it Mohammed
Innsuhlah

[anotheoldgit]

For the benefit of jno and all his ilk.

'JUST A MO' = Just a moment, also short for Mohammed.

Anyone who wishes to know what goes off in jno's mind should read the section of the link he provided.

/// So the current flap over a remark by "Bert" in June on Sesame Street's official Twitter page, in which he refers to his hairdo as more "mo" than "hawk," has taken me by surprise -- likely because the slang abbreviation for homosexual was new to me, and because I never spent much time assigning sexualities to characters whose heads move when they speak rather than their jaws.///

/// One eagle-eyed blogger, however, held up the "mo" tweet as a loosely veiled official coming-out by the yellow-headed non-human, albeit in good humor. ///

Now it is not surprising anyone 'intelligent' ?????? enough to read the Sesame Street's official Twitter page, would associate 'Mo' with homosexuality, perhaps we should now refer to it as the 'M' word in case it offends anyone.

[anotheoldgit]

I apologise to jno if he is not male, because I have just checked his profile, and he/she or other, have not set their gender.

[Scylax]

Oddly enough, Jack was the commonest name for a boy until very recently.
In the early 30s. no one named a son Jack, as Jack was the mark of the devil (almost)
and was the name of the 'baddy', the outlaw, the cowboy in the black hat, and the gangster from Chicago's underworld.
O tempora, O mores.