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In Tel Aviv Mohammed shows up in 47th place, yet less common Muslim names Adam and Omer show up in 5th and 7th place respectively. However, as mentioned, in 2014 one in seven boys in Israel were name Mohammed. As further evidence of this, in 2013 the top ten Muslim boys names made up 41.47% of all names, while the top ten Jewish boys names made up only 18.41% of all names. On the other hand, this could be evidence of the large variety of names used by Tel Aviv Jews, lowering the overall score for the names used among them, while bringing Muslim names higher up in the list due to the scarcity of names used compared to the Jewish population.
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That would seem unlikely to be due to the Arab population unless all Arabs in Tel Aviv named their sons Adam. In the case of Adam, in general you would think if it showed up in the top ten then it was as a Muslim name, but where things like that get thrown off is in Tel Aviv, where Arabs (Muslims and Christians) make up less than 5% of the population, Adam showed up in 2014 as the 5th most popular name. The Mosque of Umar, which sits on the Temple Mount, was built later, but named after him (not to be confused with the Dome of the Rock which also sits on the Temple Mount, but is not strictly speaking a mosque.Īdam (אדם) was the 5th most popular name among Muslim boys, and the 51st most popular name among Jews. Omer, in Hebrew, comes from the word for a sheaf (bundle) of wheat used in the bible, while the Arabic version would be Umar, who was the Caliph (ruler) of the Muslim world who accepted the surrender of Jerusalem in 637 CE.
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For example, in 2013 (I don’t have the full overall rankings for 2014 yet) Omer (עומר) was the 3rd most popular name among Muslim boys, and the 17th most popular among Jewish boys. Some names are used by both Jews and Muslims, but are much more popular among one group than in the other. Some names are for the same person but spelled very differently, such as for Abraham, which is Avraham (אברהם) in Hebrew and Ibrahim (אבראהים) in Arabic. Other names, while pronounced differently, are spelled the same in Hebrew, like Joseph (Yosef in Hebrew, Yusef in Arabic). In some cases names are clear, such as the most popular Muslim names Mohammed and Ahmed. Where things get tricky is where names overlap. There is just a larger pool of first names used among the Jewish population than there is among the Muslim population.Īs this blog is about Jewish genealogy, I’ve removed the Muslim names, but indicated which cities had names removed with an asterisk. It’s because one in seven Muslim boys in Israel were named Mohammed in 2014, while the next closest ratio among Jews was one in forty.
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That’s not because more Muslims are born in Israel than Jews (although there are more Muslims born per capita, the difference is not as extreme as it was in the past, and the overall number is still much lower). People who have read other reports on popular names in Israel this year probably noticed that the most popular name in Israel is Mohammed. If you are not interested in comparative demographics and onomastics of the Jewish and Muslim populations of Israel, you should skip directly down to the chart below. I’ve since received the information on boys, and put together a similar chart for boys names, although there are some caveats. That report didn’t have the information on boys, so I couldn’t post that information. The data came from a report released by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), and I had just reformatted it to make it easier to read. Earlier I posted a chart showing the most popular girls names in Israel in 2014, from 14 different cities.