More nothing-to-see-here news from England:

Mohammed Now No. 1 Baby Boys’ Name In London

Also in the West Midlands, the North-West and Yorkshire/Humberside. It’ll soon be easier just to list the parts of the country where it isn’t Number One (a village in Somerset?).

What’s interesting about Ben Leapman’s piece is the efforts made by the Office of National Statistics to obscure this accelerating trend. I wonder why they’d do that.