{"id":5796,"date":"2016-09-07T17:13:34","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T16:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=5796"},"modified":"2019-11-22T16:27:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T16:27:56","slug":"muhammad-is-the-most-popular-boys-name-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=5796","title":{"rendered":"Muhammad is the most popular boy&#8217;s name in England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Telegraph has an article with the seemingly innocuous headline <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2016\/09\/02\/oliver-and-amelia-most-popular-baby-names-for-the-third-year-run\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Oliver and Amelia the most popular baby names for the third year running&#8221;<\/a>. Oliver was chosen as a boys name by 6,941 parents.<\/p>\n<p>This is only capable of being the truth because, hidden in the text itself, there is a po-faced admission from the Office of National Statistics: the statistics are &#8220;based on the exact spelling of the name given on the birth certificate; grouping names with similar pronunciation would change the rankings&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, there&#8217;s the thing.<\/p>\n<p>If you put together the three variant spellings of Muhammad (Muhammed and Mohammed) then suddenly what is effectively the same name is chosen by 7038 parents.<\/p>\n<p>Why doesn&#8217;t the Telegraph lead with that description? I would think it rather more news-worthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telegraph has an article with the seemingly innocuous headline &#8220;Oliver and Amelia the most popular baby names for the third year running&#8221;. Oliver was chosen as a boys name by 6,941 parents. This is only capable of being the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=5796\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,36,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-islam","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-1vu","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5796"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5799,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5796\/revisions\/5799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}