Mohamed, most popular baby name in BrusselsBRUSSELS: Mohamed was the most popular name for new-born boys in Brussels in 2007, the Belgian statistics office announced Wednesday.
The boys’ names Amin (sixth most popular), Ayub and Mehdi (joint seventh), and the girls’ names Aya (third), Yasmine (fourth) and Salma (seventh) also made the top ten in a further confirmation of the European Union capital’s multi-culturalism.
Mohamed was also the seventh most popular name nationwide, beating traditional Belgian names such as Mathis (ninth) and Hugo (tenth) -although it lagged well behind the most popular names: Nathan, Lucas and Noah.
Belgian society is deeply divided between the Dutch-speaking region of Flanders in the north and the French-speaking Wallonia in the south, with Brussels an officially bilingual island in Flanders.
Since World War II the country has seen large-scale immigration, especially from North Africa, with Brussels and the port town of Antwerp attracting the bulk of the arrivals.
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