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That third Gen Z boom is powerfully infuenced by recent immigration: much of it from Eastern European countries after the fall of the old USSR, much also from African and other locations.

One of the most common birth names in the last ten or more years is Mohammad, (@ #5) and there are at least four spelling variants of this name which come into the top 200 boys names.

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Indeed. I've mentioned immigration and influx in part 2 since you can see we're synthesising people; that is we end with more folk than were born as time progresses.

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Do we have any idea why those years are missing from the ONS data?

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No idea!

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