Exemplifying demographic changes taking place due to mass migration, the most popular name for boys in England and Wales last year was Muhammad, The Arabic name, which is shared with the Prophet Muhammad, overtook Noah to become the most popular name for boys in 2023…
Although it is being reported that this is the first time Muhammad has topped the charts, it would have actually come in at number one in multiple previous years had all the different spellings of the name been combined, “In 2023 there were 4,661 Muhammads born across England and Wales, up from 4,177 in 2022,” reports the Telegraph, “In contrast, only 4,382 Noahs were born in 2023, down from 4,586 the previous year.”
The name Muhammad has been in the top 10 since 2016, the fact that it has now risen to number one in the space of 7 years underscores how rapidly the UK is being changed demographically by mass migration, The results of the 2021 census revealed that the UK has gone from being over 99 per cent ethnically white British in 1951 to just 76.8 per cent white British in 2021.
England went from being 94 per cent white to just 81% white within the space of three decades, Almost 6 per cent of the population are now Muslim, a figure that has more than doubled since 2001, Last week it was revealed that net migration to the UK hit record high of 906,000 in year to June 2023
This prompted left-wing Labour leader Prime Minister Keir Starmer to deliver an emergency speech asserting that the previous Tory government had been running an “open borders experiment” which “happened by design, not accident.” The changes are most noticeably felt in major cities like Liverpool, where in a clip posted to X, a man takes a walk around the city center and notes how he can’t even find a fellow scouser.
The news is part of the wider phenomenon taking place across the continent with Muhammad and its spelling variants already taking the top spot in major cities of other European countries.
The name became the most popular for baby boys in the Irish city of Galway in 2022, marking the first time an Islamic forename had topped the list for either gender in an Irish city. Similarly, the name was the most popular for boys in the German capital of Berlin that same year.
In Brussels — the de facto capital of the European Union — two variations of the name made up the top three boys’ names in 2021. Mohamed was the most popular with 13,595 registrations. The second most common name was Jean, trailing in its wake at 6,089, while Mohammed took third being given to 4,835 newborns.
