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Hometown favorites: names only one state loves
26 names · 19 girls · 7 boys · records through 2025
National charts hide the best local stories. In some states, a name every neighbor recognizes barely registers in the other forty-nine.
This guide has 26 names: 19 girl names and 7 boy names. Names in a state's latest top-100 whose national rank is outside the top 300 (or unranked). Built from US Social Security birth records through 2025. Tap + beside any name to keep it on your shortlist as you read.
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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
26 names
- 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
Every rank and count here is published by the US Social Security Administration and refreshed each year when the new figures land. The method is stated at the top of this page.
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