The most popular name in Israel is...Muhammad

Somewhere in the region of seventy-five per cent of Israeli citizens are Jewish, so it would seem natural that the most popular babies’ names might be Jewish too.

You might expect to see some Daniels, some Davids or to keep it topical, perhaps the odd Jared in the national ‘most popular name’ lists.

But perhaps counterintuitively Muhammad tops the top baby boys’ names list for the third consecutive year according to a chart published on the Israeli government’s official Twitter feed earlier today.

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