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I heard this being refered to as the Muhammad Effect. Tabloids love to write articles about most popular name for newborn kids in each country. And in countrie

by ajuc 6y ago

I heard this being refered to as the Muhammad Effect. Tabloids love to write articles about most popular name for newborn kids in each country. And in countries with non-negligible Muslim minorities that name is often Muhammad (or some variation of it), because Muslims names have higher peak. So there might be 50 times as much kids with non-Muslim names, but they have roughly even spread between names and don't show up in that statistic. Then people freak out they are taken over by imigrants :)

satvikpendem 6y ago
Similarly, in the Western world, the most popular name seems to be some form of John.
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- TulliusCicero 6y ago
  Yes, though proportionally I think there are far more Mohammed's. Wikipedia says: > It is thought to be the most popular name in the world, being given to an estimated 150 million men and boys. One of my teammates recently gave birth to a boy, she talked a little about figuring out whether to name the kid Mohammed or not, with the major downside being that yeah, it's insanely common, especially among her nationality.
  - derefr 6y ago
    > with the major downside being that yeah, it's insanely common, especially among her nationality. What's even the upside? When people name their kids things like John or Mohammed, I just think of this comic: https://webcomicname.com/post/617835911135330304 https://webcomicname.com/post/617835911135330304
- satvikpendem 6y ago
  From this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O2Yjn3OXRk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O2Yjn3OXRk Actually it seems to have started as Yohanan, Yo coming from Yahweh (god in Hebrew), and hanan (gracious).
netcan 6y ago
I like this. It's concise, and captures something I've been saying about pop statistics for a while. Statistics are such a big part of information these days (eg covid), and the poor intuitions people have about statistics are getting to be impactful.

by ajuc 6y ago

satvikpendem 6y ago

Similarly, in the Western world, the most popular name seems to be some form of John.

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TulliusCicero 6y ago
Yes, though proportionally I think there are far more Mohammed's. Wikipedia says: > It is thought to be the most popular name in the world, being given to an estimated 150 million men and boys. One of my teammates recently gave birth to a boy, she talked a little about figuring out whether to name the kid Mohammed or not, with the major downside being that yeah, it's insanely common, especially among her nationality.
- derefr 6y ago
  > with the major downside being that yeah, it's insanely common, especially among her nationality. What's even the upside? When people name their kids things like John or Mohammed, I just think of this comic: https://webcomicname.com/post/617835911135330304 https://webcomicname.com/post/617835911135330304
satvikpendem 6y ago
From this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O2Yjn3OXRk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O2Yjn3OXRk Actually it seems to have started as Yohanan, Yo coming from Yahweh (god in Hebrew), and hanan (gracious).

netcan 6y ago

I like this. It's concise, and captures something I've been saying about pop statistics for a while. Statistics are such a big part of information these days (eg covid), and the poor intuitions people have about statistics are getting to be impactful.