The most popular baby names in Scotland for 2010 were announced yesterday. Top of the pile for boys was Jack (as normal).
Of course, the news was full of the odd strange name that was found such as “T”. (never done Mr. T any harm).
I remembered a story from earlier this year about derivatives of Mohammed being the most popular name for newly born boys in England, but because it has twelve different spellings, it didn’t feature in the official top list.
I wondered if this could also be the case in Scotland, so I dug a bit deeper into the statistics.
According to the official statistics, the name Muhammed was recorded 86 times and Mohammed was recorded 64 times. That’s a total of 150 and would put the name in equal 44th position with, funnily enough, “Joseph”, but behind Noah, Luke, Andrew, Thomas, Matthew, James and Judas. (only kidding about Judas).
If you look at the names per region, the Muhammed + Mohammed combination is a winner in Glasgow with 84 records, putting it in clear first place over Ryan at 59 and Jack with 58.
And the point of all this??? Nothing really, just mildly interesting to look at and compare to the bit of a whoo-hah that was generated from the English stories linked to above.
Apparently a guy in Glasgow registered the birth of his twin girls, naming them…….wait for it………Armani and Versace.
And not forgetting the unforgetable Pocahontas McGinty (yes really). There are 5 Pocahontases (Pocahontii??) in Glasgow alone.