(Morocco World News) Recent data from the Statbel, the Belgian statistics office, reported that 294 babies were named Mohamed in 2021, down from 518 registered cases in 2011.
Data show that the popularity of Mohamed in Belgium had been steadily growing between 1995 and 2010, marking an increase from 217 to 538 newborns.
Since reaching its peak in 2010, however, the popularity among newborns of the most widely used Arab and Muslim first name seems to have subsided.
After a slight increase in Mohamed’s popularity in 2015 and 2018 that pushed the numbers to 461 and 420, respectively, in 2021, parents of only 112 newborns chose Mohamed as their children’s first name in the Flemish region, whereas Brussels registered a slightly higher number of 118.
