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Regional Name trends: Different states of mind
Regional Name trends: Different states of mind
Oct 6, 2024 9:39 PM

  It’s always interesting to take a look at which names are most popular where.  You can usually count on some surprises and this year is no exception.  For instance Anna ranking in the top five in both Alabama and Mississippi, when it’s down at 29 across the country, and Logan, which is #17 on the Social Security list, now the #1 boys’ name in three widespread states—Idaho, Minnesota and New Hampshire.

  Repeating the pattern of last year, the majority of names that popped out from the crowd were in the boys’ column; for the girls’ names across the country there was a remarkable uniformity of choice—with Isabella, Emma, Olivia, Madison, or Ava heading the list in all but two states, while on the male side, there were several top singletons, such as Wyatt in Wyoming and Ryan in Massachusetts.

  But what are really most intriguing are the names that jump out of nowhere in one particular place—some of them throwbacks, some predictive of future popularity, some reflecting the state’s ethnicity, such as Gianna in New Jersey and José, the most common name in Texas.

  Here are some of the names that were not even in the Top 25 nationally, but rated high in specific areas, with their national ratings in parenthesis:

  ALLISON  (30)—     #1 in the District of Columbia

  ANNA (29)  —          #4 in Alabama

  BROOKLYN (37)      #4 in Utah

  CHARLOTTE (68)    #8 in the District f Columbia

  FAITH (80)  ——-  #10 in Hawaii

  GABRIELLA (33) — #10 in Rhode Island

  GIANNA (76) ——  #11 in New Jersey

  KATHERINE (60)  –   #4 in the District of Columbia

  KAYLEE (26) —— –  #10 in West Virginia

  LILLIAN (27) ——    #10 in Indiana

  MAKAYLA (44)  — – #9 in Mississippi

  NEVEAH (34)—         #4 in New Mexico

  ZOE  (47)  ——– —    #9 in the District of Columbia

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  ANGEL (37)  ——– #4 in Arizona and Texas

  BRAYDEN (47) —– #6 in West Virginia

  CALEB (31) ———  #6 in Hawaii

  CARTER (50) ——–#3 in Iowa

  CHASE (61) ———-#8 in Pennsylvania

  GAVIN ((33) ——— #3 in South Dakota

  HUNTER (56) ——-  #2 in West Virginia

  ISAAC (40)  ——- –#4 in Utah

  ISAIAH (41) ———#7 in New Mexico

  JACK (42) ————#3 in North Dakota

  JOSE (43) ———— #1 in Texas

  JOSIAH (87) ———#10 in New Mexico

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