Posted on 01/20/2008 2:27:44 PM PST by neverdem
Look that list over very carefully. They pulled a fast one on you. Mohammed is listed several times with different spellings. I suspect if you add up all the different spellings you just might get a number one slot for mohammed.
If +/- 3% of the population have only one name (with its variants) to choose from for their male firstborn, but the remaining 97% have n000 names to choose from, it’s hardly surprising that the first is over-represented in the statistics.
Re: Enoch Powell
Thanks for expanding my pitiful knowledge of Britain. The Wikipedia article was quite informative, even balanced, given the nature of Powell’s central political philosophy.
And yes, Powell did nail it 40 years ago with the Rivers of Blood speech. However, he was a bit of an enigma given his actions to employ Commonwealth personnel in the Health Ministry.
It’s worth googling and reading the entire ROB speech by Enoch Powell. The parts that are quoted are only a tiny percent of the material.
I think the ranking comes from compiling all the iterrations and spellings of Mohammed (Muhamad, Mohamed, etc). I can’t confirm this- it was an explanation I had read somewhere- nor can I do the math as there are just rankings on the page. Do 17 and 37 sum to number 2? Doesn’t seem likely...
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