A juxtaposition of figures from Statistics Sweden and legal information has yielded similar results for other common Muslim names as well.

Axar.az reports citing news outlet Samhällsnytt has come up with a stunning find after comparing data from Statistics Sweden with that from legal information database Lexbase, where information regarding convictions is stored.

Samhällsnytt's search found that nearly a quarter of people named Ali residing in Sweden have a criminal record.

A search in Statistics Sweden revealed that 40,790 people have Ali as either first name or surname. A search in Lexbase resulted in 9,742 hits, meaning that roughly 24 percent of all Alis in Sweden have a conviction.

About 6,500 women have 'Ali' as either a first name or a surname, so Samhällsnytt's research highlighted a drastic over-representation of male Alis among those charged. A series of spot-checks revealed “very few women”, the news outlet wrote.

Samhällsnytt's checks for other Islamic names have yielded similar results. For instance, Statistics Sweden lists 26,867 people named Ahmed. By contrast, a search in Lexbase yielded 4,944 hits, which corresponds to 18 percent of all Ahmeds having a criminal record.

At the same time, there is no shortage of independent studies that have highlighted migrants' drastic over-representation in certain types of crime, including rapes and gang rapes. The 2005 study, the last of its kind, showed that foreign-born men were five times more likely to be suspected of sex crimes than native-born Swedes.