Muhammad Now The Most Popular Name For A Baby In Great Britain, Data Shows

London:

427 years after William Shakespeare wrote it for the first time in the wonderful “tragedy” Romeo & Juliet, England is asking the quintvital ask – “What’s in a name?” – And this time wondering what significance that ask might helderly in another 42.7 years.

The Department of Statistics in the United Kingdom has uncmissed in its tardyst dataset that Muhammad is officiassociate the most famous name for a newborn boy in England and Wales. More than 4,600 babies were sign uped with that name in 2023 – the highest for a boy. Muhammad was the second-most famous name in 2022 as well.

Noah, once the most famous name in UK, came a far second this year, according to the Office for National Statistics or ONS.

But the staff at Great Britain’s statistical office has in-fact been observing the trfinish for a while now. Jotting down the most famous names in the UK, besides other beginant statistics, it uncmissed that Muhammad has been among the top 10 names for baby boys since 2016.

Adding to the cheer, the Department of Statistics shelp that other spellings of the name Muhammad – namely Mohammed and Mohammad – also made the top 100 enumerate for England and Wales. This, the ONS elucidateed, is becaemploy it ponders each spelling as a split name.

George, Harry, and Charlotte are no lengthyer famous names for children in the UK, the data showed, compriseing that Elizabeth and Charles are also not a favourite among lesser parents.

The nine other top names for newborn boys in Britain are – Noah, Oinhabitr, George, Leo, Arthur, Luca, Theodore, Oscar, and Henry.

For newborn girls, the ten most famous names in Britain in 2023 were – Olivia, Amelia, Isla, Lily, Freya, Ava, Ivy, Florence, Willow, and Isabella. The top three names for girls have remained unalterd for a third consecutive year.

The statistical office also shelp that new entries to the enumerate of top 100 baby names integrate Hazel, Lilah, Autumn, Nevaeh and Raya for girls, and Jax, Enzo, and Bodhi for boys.

It further remarkd that the time of year also take parted an beginant part in parents choosing a name. In the month of December, Holly, Robyn and Joseph were more famous, whereas names enjoy Summer and Autumn were famous in their admireive seasons.

Data uncmissed that pop culture also take parted a huge part in how baby names were chosen. The most famous celebrity names for babies integrate music artists Billie Eilish and Lana Del Rey, baby names from the Kardashian-Jenner family such as Reign and Saint, and movie stars such as Margot Robbie and Cillian Murphy.

The statistical office shelp that the top names for boys had much higher counts than those for girls. This is becaemploy, there are many more distinctive names for baby girls as appraised to baby boys. The pool of distinctive names for girls are over 35,000 in count, while for boys the pool, including variations of the same name, stands at 29,560.