Thursday, August 28, 2014

Mohammed is most popular name in Oslo

8/28/2014

For the first time in the capital city's history, Mohammed is the common name for boys and men, said a study on Thursday.
Mohammed is most popular name in Oslo
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Statistics Norway (Statistisk Sentralbyrå - SSB) has counted the population of Oslo and found that Mohammed is the most common male name in Oslo for the first time ever.
Jørgen Ouren of SSB said to NRK: “It is very exciting.”
 
Altogether 4,801 boys and men are named Mohammed or variations of Mohammed as their first name, and Mohammed has thereby passed both Jan (4,667) and Per (4,155).
 
The name has spent four years in a row at the top of the list of baby names in Oslo, but this is the first time that Mohammed tops the men's name list for Oslo.


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