The Off Topic Topic

[Valmy]

Another annoying one is when every year the British baby name rankings come out and Muhammed is inevitably number 1....
Ignoring that basically every other Muslim in Britain is Muhammed and there's less than half the number of Muhammed's being born vs the top ranked name of a century ago (John), when the country had 60% as many people.

After Oct 7th the name "Yahya" entered the top 100 names in Britain.

Is that the girl the Beatles were singing about? She loves you, Yahya?

[Savonarola]

Is that the girl the Beatles were singing about? She loves you, Yahya?

No, it's the girl Lee Dorsey was waiting for when he was sitting in La La.

[Admiral Yi]

Jimminy Cricket, incel nation. 

[Razgovory]

Another annoying one is when every year the British baby name rankings come out and Muhammed is inevitably number 1....
Ignoring that basically every other Muslim in Britain is Muhammed and there's less than half the number of Muhammed's being born vs the top ranked name of a century ago (John), when the country had 60% as many people.

After Oct 7th the name "Yahya" entered the top 100 names in Britain.

Is that the girl the Beatles were singing about? She loves you, Yahya?

No, it's like naming your kid "Adolf".

[HVC]

Looked it up. It's Arabic for John. Specifically as tied to John the Baptist.

[Valmy]

No, it's like naming your kid "Adolf".

Hmmmm...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahya_(name)

Oh it is a dude's name.

Yahya (Arabic: يحيى, romanized: Yaḥyā), also spelled Yehia, is an Arabic male given name.[a] It is an Arabic form of the Aramaic given name Yohanan (Hebrew: יְהוֹחָנָן‎, romanized: Yəhoḥānān, lit. 'Yahweh is gracious') of John the Baptist in Islam, who is considered a prophet. For this reason, Yahya is a comparatively common name in the Muslim world.

You sure the people being named this are being named after the specific person you are talking about? It seems like the Arabic version of the name John.

[The Brain]

Another annoying one is when every year the British baby name rankings come out and Muhammed is inevitably number 1....
Ignoring that basically every other Muslim in Britain is Muhammed and there's less than half the number of Muhammed's being born vs the top ranked name of a century ago (John), when the country had 60% as many people.

After Oct 7th the name "Yahya" entered the top 100 names in Britain.

Is that the girl the Beatles were singing about? She loves you, Yahya?

No, it's like naming your kid "Adolf".

Eichmann or Hitler?

[Razgovory]

Looked it up. It's Arabic for John. Specifically as tied to John the Baptist.

Yeah... and it is the same name as the Oct 7th mastermind Yahya Sinwar.  Just a coincidence.

[HVC]

What number was it at before the 7th?

[HVC]

Tried looking up this stat. Can't find it anywhere in the top 100 in 2025 (or previous years)


*edit* found one place. On here at least it's 62, but only went up 16 places, so according to this list anyway it was already popular. And these baby name site are all over the damn place. How accurate can they be?


https://www.babycentre.co.uk/baby-names/most-popular/top-baby-names-2025

*edit 2* looks like Toby is a terrorist too. Went up 16 spots.

*edit 3* Myles is a fucking serial killer, went up 21 spots

[Razgovory]

What number was it at before the 7th?

33 places lower.
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-863044

[HVC]

What number was it at before the 7th?

33 places lower.
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-863044

Jpost. Aren't the the righty paper of Israel ?

PS Watch out for Myles'.

[Josquius]

Googling it, it seems Yahya creeping into the top 100 is a non story that weirdly blew up in fasc circles a few weeks back.

Even if we assume it just appeared out of nowhere and every instance is a declaration of love for Hamas.... That's 583 kids.
How many Muslim kids do you suppose were born last year? 40,000 I guess?
Yeah.... Not really a ringing endorsement for Hamas.

Consider too it's a pretty common Muslim name and was previously just 33 spaces lower in the charts (so like 400 kids I guess?) that further dilutes how much of a Hamas endorsement it can be read as.

The main story here is how sad it is Raz hasn't found himself a new hobby.

[Valmy]

Also that was off topic. We were talking about population replacement and for all we know half the Hamas fans are not immigrants at all but Jeremy Corbyn supporters 

[Razgovory]

What number was it at before the 7th?

33 places lower.
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-863044

Jpost. Aren't the the righty paper of Israel ?

PS Watch out for Myles'.

It's the free one.  I don't know "myles'" is.

Okay, you edited it.  Now I know what you are talking about.