Hometown favorites: names only one state loves
National charts hide the best local stories. In some states, a name every neighbor recognizes barely registers in the other forty-nine.
Below, for each state where we found one: a name inside that state's current top-100 that sits far outside the national rankings. Regional pride, on a birth certificate.
State by state
- Augustus#56 in Alaska, rare nationwide
- Emory#96 in Alabama, rare nationwide
- Wrenlee#95 in Arkansas, rare nationwide
- Francesca#99 in Connecticut, rare nationwide
- Zuri#63 in Washington, D.C., rare nationwide
- Emi#19 in Hawaii, rare nationwide
- Wrenlee#90 in Kentucky, rare nationwide
- Demi#49 in Louisiana, rare nationwide
- Helena#88 in Massachusetts, rare nationwide
- Frances#92 in Maine, rare nationwide
- Ali#50 in Michigan, rare nationwide
- Sullivan#77 in Minnesota, rare nationwide
- Ryleigh#63 in Mississippi, rare nationwide
- Bonnie#82 in Montana, rare nationwide
- Hattie#27 in North Dakota, rare nationwide
- Merritt#83 in Nebraska, rare nationwide
- Moshe#29 in New Jersey, rare nationwide
- Xiomara#93 in New Mexico, rare nationwide
- Moshe#22 in New York, rare nationwide
- Wrenlee#99 in Oklahoma, rare nationwide
- Francesca#70 in Rhode Island, rare nationwide
- Sutton#55 in South Dakota, rare nationwide
- Navy#41 in Utah, rare nationwide
- Sullivan#45 in Vermont, rare nationwide
- Octavia#41 in West Virginia, rare nationwide
- Wrenlee#44 in Wyoming, rare nationwide
How this list is built: Names in a state's latest top-100 whose national rank is outside the top 300 (or unranked). Source: US Social Security birth records, refreshed yearly.
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