Saturday, April 14, 2007

Mohammed overtakes George in list of most popular names

As we all know parents can be a fickle bunch and no more so when it comes to choosing their children's names. 'Mohammed' has now overtaken 'George'( England's 'patron Saint') in the UK baby name popularity list and simply reflects the modern ethnic diversity of Great Britain. Strangely, the USA seems to be more consistent with it's 'Georges' and it maintains popularity. It's interesting to see how a name can drop away from favour and subsequently give the holder a feeling of collective unpopularity ( The old 'everyone hates me' syndrome). It's like 'Osamma' today, like 'Adolf' after the 1940's and even 'Judas' if you go back 2000 years I guess. I demonstrate a couple of names taken at random...'George' and 'Lisa' to show the trends in the USA.