{"id":5299,"date":"2018-01-10T06:44:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T06:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/5299-muhammed-3rd-most-popular-name-for-baby-boys-in-minnesota-town\/"},"modified":"2018-01-10T06:44:39","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T06:44:39","slug":"muhammed-3rd-most-popular-name-for-baby-boys-in-minnesota-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/5299-muhammed-3rd-most-popular-name-for-baby-boys-in-minnesota-town\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMuhammed\u201d 3rd most popular name for baby boys in Minnesota Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">St. Cloud Hospital in St. Cloud, US state of Minnesota, came out with its annual list of top 10 most popular baby names for 2017, and No. 3 on the list of boys\u2019 names was a bit of a surprise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">St. Cloud Hospital in St. Cloud, US state of Minnesota, came out with its annual list of top 10 most popular baby names for 2017, and No. 3 on the list of boys\u2019 names was a bit of a surprise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">The hospital has been publicizing its top baby names for boys and girls for as long as anyone can remember, but this is the first time the namesake of the Islamic prophet ended up in the top five.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">In fact, as recently as 2013 the hospital published a list of its \u201cTop 20\u201d most popular baby names, and \u201cMuhammed\u201d was nowhere to be found.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">But in 2015, the name \u201cMuhammed\u201d showed up for the first time, coming in at No. 6 on the list of boy\u2019s names.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">The vast majority of Muslims in Minnesota are refugees from Somalia, and the Somalis have large families.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The name Muhammed, spelled one of various ways in English, has been among the most popular names for baby boys born in London, England, for more than a decade, and was No. 1 on London\u2019s list last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Cloud Hospital in St. Cloud, US state of Minnesota, came out with its annual list of top 10 most popular baby names for 2017, and No. 3 on the list of boys\u2019 names was a bit of a surprise. \u00a0 St. Cloud Hospital in St. Cloud, US state of Minnesota, came out with its &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[258,1071,531,382],"class_list":["post-5299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-hospital","tag-muhammed","tag-muslims","tag-name"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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