Mohamed races ahead as most common boy name in Brussels last year

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  1. Yeh not like 50% of “native” (can’t believe I’m using this word) flemish people have a name that’s based in christianity.

  2. ~24% of all people living in Brussels are Muslim. It’s a common thing to name at least one of your sons to the prophet out of respect.

    My sympathies go out to all the teachers in Brussels who’ll have to find new ways to refer to all these kids.

  3. Mehmet, most common Turkish name is also shortened version of Muhammet (in Turkish). They probably were not aware when they did put Mohamed names together, so number is probably higher.

  4. Lol, how did that journalist manage to completely misunderstand the numbers. Those are not newborns, but names of total population. I was confused for a bit why Marc, Jean and Jan made such a comeback in Flanders.

    Edit: oh, I just clicked on some other articles on that site, not really high quality journalism.

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