The reason why the name Muhammad tops the list of boys’ names is very simple. This is a long post to explain it because some people struggle to understand basic maths.
Imagine 10 boys are born in a town:
3 boys are from Muslim families.
7 boys are from non-Muslim families.
The 3 Muslim families choose different spellings of the same name:
1 boy: Muhammad
1 boy: Mohammed
1 boy: Mohammad
That’s 3 different boys with the same name spelt differently.
The other 7 boys are:
1 boy: Noah
1 boy: Leo
1 boy: Luca
1 boy: Theo
1 boy: Oliver
1 boy: Ethan
1 boy: Elijah
The name Muhammad appears as the most common. It does not mean that most boys have that name.
In this example, 7 out of 10 boys are still not named Muhammad.
In reality, around 5,000 children are named Muhammad out of roughly 220,000 boys born.
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