NJ2 Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-45559619Hunter & Aurora join the top 100 baby names apparently. Good to see a come back for Edith and nice that Ralph is going well. From the top 10 we should have a good few Dod’s & Isa’s in the future. Do any P&B’ers have friends? Friends that have given their children unusual names? Have you got a stupid name? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 Easily the best bit of that article is the seethe that Muhammad at number 10 will generate. I actually looked excitedly for a HYS section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJ2 Posted September 21, 2018 Author Share Posted September 21, 2018 Easily the best bit of that article is the seethe that Muhammad at number 10 will generate. I actually looked excitedly for a HYS section. I like to think of some little family in Stoke or somewhere, having a boy and calling him Muhammad only for the gran-parents to implode with rage for absolutely no reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 I got bullied over my name at primary in England Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 I got bullied over my name at primary in England We would have bullied you too Cecil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 1 minute ago, Bairnardo said: 6 minutes ago, Shandon Par said: I got bullied over my name at primary in England We would have bullied you too Cecil. It was a fine excuse to give them all a jolly good thrashing anyway, annoying c***s that they were. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJ2 Posted September 21, 2018 Author Share Posted September 21, 2018 I got bullied over my name at primary in England But wur aw jock tamsin’s bairns? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 Quote "Nigel is making a comeback of sorts" Brexit, there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throbber Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 Easily the best bit of that article is the seethe that Muhammad at number 10 will generate. I actually looked excitedly for a HYS section. With that spelling the name is at number 10 but with the various different spellings including Mohammed it is the most popular name in the country with 7229 babies born with that name in 2017. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken Wing Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 I got bullied over my name at primary in England Why would they have bullied you Adam? We're not at a "biblical" school? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 5 minutes ago, throbber said: With that spelling the name is at number 10 but with the various different spellings including Mohammed it is the most popular name in the country with 7229 babies born with that name in 2017. what counts as a different spelling and what's a different name? muhammed maybe? mohammet? what about mohmet? how about if you count the different spellings/versions of other names though: lump in all the ians, euans, eoins, owens, johns, jans and giovannis? Personnally i think names are outdated and our robot overlords will find barcodes a much more practical way of managing their bio-resources. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throbber Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 what counts as a different spelling and what's a different name? muhammed maybe? mohammet? what about mohmet? how about if you count the different spellings/versions of other names though: lump in all the ians, euans, eoins, owens, johns, jans and giovannis? Personnally i think names are outdated and our robot overlords will find barcodes a much more practical way of managing their bio-resources.I’m not sure, what I said about the different spellings was in the article posted by the OP. The % of Muslim boys called Muhammad is disproportionate so it’s not really a fair representation. Out of the top 10 male names I don’t know or have never met or heard of anyone with 5 of them, I can only think of one Oliver and one Harry that I have ever met and only about 2 Jacks. Noah is a ridiculous name as well and anyone called that is forbidden to play with my daughter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 Where does Billy Mehmet fit into all of this? FYI I know both a Hunter and an Aurora. Both >30 years old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJ2 Posted September 21, 2018 Author Share Posted September 21, 2018 Where does Billy Mehmet fit into all of this?Subs bench. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cardinal Richelieu Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 24 minutes ago, throbber said: . Noah is a ridiculous name as well and anyone called that is forbidden to play with my daughter. What's your daughter's name so we can all judge? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throbber Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 What's your daughter's name so we can all judge?All I’ll say is that it’s around the 300 th most popular girls name for 2017. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 None this year. Boooooo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 My two daughters had 42 and 0 namesakes in England in 2017. Since they have quite Scottish names I doubt the number would be as low here. Quite pleased with that. 91 little England babies with my name which is too many IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herman Hessian Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 10 minutes ago, throbber said: All I’ll say is that it’s around the 300 th most popular girls name for 2017. Mohammed ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 9 minutes ago, throbber said: 300 th most popular A bit like yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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