Across parts of Europe, the name Muhammad and its variants have surged by up to 700% since 2000, driven by growing Muslim communities and immigration. The Mailhas the numbers.
Parts of Europe have seen a 700% rise in baby boys being named Muhammad or another variation since the Millennium.
One in 200 boys born in Austria today will be called either Muhammad, Mohammed, Mohammad, Mohamed and Mohamad, official statistics suggest.
For comparison, Daily Mail analysis shows the equivalent rate stood at around one in every 1,670 in 2000.
In England and Wales last year, 3% of boys were given the name Muhammad or one of four separate iterations ubiquitous in Islamic culture. Yet in parts of the nation this was as high as 9%, separate figures suggested. …
Growing sizes of Muslim communities across the UK fuelled by immigration, as well as the popularity of sporting figures such as Mohamed Salah are likely to be behind the increase, experts say.
The Daily Mail audit involved trawling official baby naming figures from 11 European countries.
Datasets for some, including Germany – which has seen the most Muslim refugees arrive in the last decade – were not publicly accessible in full.
Due to the many spelling variations and their varying popularity in each country, our audit combined the five most common spellings into one grouping.
Behind England and Wales, the nation with the highest rate was Belgium.
There, just over 1% of boys born in 2024 were given one of the five names – up from 0.5% in 2000.
Similarly high figures were seen in France (0.87%) and the Netherlands (0.7%). …
However, given there are thirty-plus ways to spell the name, it’s likely the Daily Mail’s analysis underrepresents the true figure.
Research from the influential Pew Research Centre estimated that Muslims made up 4.9% of Europe’s total population in 2017.
Yet this would double to 11.2% by 2025 if migration continued at a “medium” level, its projections showed. …
Across all 11 countries in our audit, Poland had the fewest number of baby boys called Muhammad or one of the other spellings (0.01%) in 2024.
Polish governments have fought bitterly against EU migration plans over the years. …
Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) last month revealed that the top boys’ name in 2024 was Muhammad, for the second year running. …
But the ONS, alongside most other European statistical bodies, only provide figures based on the exact spelling and do not group names.
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MajorMajor
7 months ago
I’m sure there are people on the left who think this is a wonderful thing and a sign of vibrant multiculturalism.
The very same people will be surprised when the little Mohameds grow up and express their feelings about the lefties and their ideas in a vibrant manner.
But then the lefties are not very intelligent people and generally don’t possess a lot of foresight. Mostly they are just driven by envy and resentment and for some reason nothing irritates them quite as much as Christianity.
This should surprise nobody, given that it’s the countries currently undergoing Islamification as part of the replacement project that are experiencing this gradual Islamic caliphate expansion. However, I am surprised Germany aren’t on that list. Of all the invaders all throughout the history of the British Isles, surely it’s Islam that is the most noxious and unsuitable to implant itself alongside our culture. It’s also the only one where the treasonous leaders have welcomed the ‘invaders’ with open arms, having essentially signed a death warrant for British sovereignty and ensured the erasure of our national identity; ”England and the rest of Britain have experienced numerous invasions from outside. However, ethnic peculiarities of neighboring peoples from the continent have been absorbed into the existing culture and have enriched it over time. Only in the last thirty years have the British experienced unlimited flows of aliens that threaten their own culture with extinction. Now, however, patiently invaded, England is broken. Unlike the drama at Hastings in 1066, the Islamic conquest has been insidious. Across the British Isles, a shift is taking place from a high-trust society, presupposing a homogenous culture, towards a multicultural “no-man’s-land” characterized by widespread suspicion and division. Alienation originates… Read more »
Germany is surely “on the list”, it’s just not featured in this research because too much of the data was not publicly accessible.
Pete Sutton
7 months ago
Spot the difference… MuHAMMAD; MuHAMMAS
Curio
7 months ago
Strange that there are no low sperm counts, low testosterone and low fertility rates (as we are weekly reminded) when it comes to Muhammad, Ali, Abdullah and Ahmed.
Matt Dalby
7 months ago
Show your moral values by naming your baby after a paedophile.
Some men are even called ‘Mohammed Mohammed’. WTF is that all about??
Archimedes
7 months ago
UK and Europe had better wake up fast. If this trend continues then it is the end of the beliefs, values, and conduct that led to the enlightenment and built the most advanced civilisation in history. Truly, it will all be over but it is not yet too late to turn this around.
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I’m sure there are people on the left who think this is a wonderful thing and a sign of vibrant multiculturalism.
The very same people will be surprised when the little Mohameds grow up and express their feelings about the lefties and their ideas in a vibrant manner.
But then the lefties are not very intelligent people and generally don’t possess a lot of foresight. Mostly they are just driven by envy and resentment and for some reason nothing irritates them quite as much as Christianity.
This should surprise nobody, given that it’s the countries currently undergoing Islamification as part of the replacement project that are experiencing this gradual Islamic caliphate expansion. However, I am surprised Germany aren’t on that list. Of all the invaders all throughout the history of the British Isles, surely it’s Islam that is the most noxious and unsuitable to implant itself alongside our culture. It’s also the only one where the treasonous leaders have welcomed the ‘invaders’ with open arms, having essentially signed a death warrant for British sovereignty and ensured the erasure of our national identity; ”England and the rest of Britain have experienced numerous invasions from outside. However, ethnic peculiarities of neighboring peoples from the continent have been absorbed into the existing culture and have enriched it over time. Only in the last thirty years have the British experienced unlimited flows of aliens that threaten their own culture with extinction. Now, however, patiently invaded, England is broken. Unlike the drama at Hastings in 1066, the Islamic conquest has been insidious. Across the British Isles, a shift is taking place from a high-trust society, presupposing a homogenous culture, towards a multicultural “no-man’s-land” characterized by widespread suspicion and division. Alienation originates… Read more »
Germany is surely “on the list”, it’s just not featured in this research because too much of the data was not publicly accessible.
Spot the difference… MuHAMMAD; MuHAMMAS
Strange that there are no low sperm counts, low testosterone and low fertility rates (as we are weekly reminded) when it comes to Muhammad, Ali, Abdullah and Ahmed.
Show your moral values by naming your baby after a paedophile.
Some men are even called ‘Mohammed Mohammed’. WTF is that all about??
UK and Europe had better wake up fast. If this trend continues then it is the end of the beliefs, values, and conduct that led to the enlightenment and built the most advanced civilisation in history. Truly, it will all be over but it is not yet too late to turn this around.