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Names the Midwest loves best
30 names · 15 girls · 15 boys · records through 2025
Naming has a geography. Some names are practically a local handshake in the Midwest while the rest of the country barely knows them.
This guide has 30 names: 15 girl names and 15 boy names. Top-100 in several states of the Midwest while outside the national top-150 (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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Each name below ranks in the current top-100 of several states in the Midwest yet sits outside the national top-150 — beloved at home, distinctive everywhere else.
Girl names
15 names
- Wrenleytop-100 in 9 states of the Midwest · #158 nationally
- Oaklynntop-100 in 6 states of the Midwest · #153 nationally
- Oakleytop-100 in 6 states of the Midwest · #156 nationally
- Lennontop-100 in 6 states of the Midwest · #214 nationally
- Embertop-100 in 5 states of the Midwest · #154 nationally
- Suttontop-100 in 5 states of the Midwest · #181 nationally
- Blakelytop-100 in 5 states of the Midwest · #191 nationally
- Ruthtop-100 in 4 states of the Midwest · #173 nationally
- Mabeltop-100 in 4 states of the Midwest · #201 nationally
- Collinstop-100 in 4 states of the Midwest · #241 nationally
- Blairtop-100 in 3 states of the Midwest · #169 nationally
- Adalynntop-100 in 3 states of the Midwest · #184 nationally
- Tatumtop-100 in 3 states of the Midwest · #189 nationally
- Everleightop-100 in 3 states of the Midwest · #194 nationally
- Brynleetop-100 in 3 states of the Midwest · #243 nationally
Boy names
15 names
- Coltertop-100 in 7 states of the Midwest · #157 nationally
- Hayestop-100 in 6 states of the Midwest · #162 nationally
- Rhetttop-100 in 6 states of the Midwest · #188 nationally
- Barretttop-100 in 5 states of the Midwest · #171 nationally
- Rykertop-100 in 5 states of the Midwest · #182 nationally
- Bakertop-100 in 5 states of the Midwest · #217 nationally
- Tuckertop-100 in 4 states of the Midwest · #181 nationally
- Tatetop-100 in 4 states of the Midwest · #193 nationally
- Harveytop-100 in 4 states of the Midwest · #251 nationally
- Elliottop-100 in 3 states of the Midwest · #151 nationally
- Beckhamtop-100 in 3 states of the Midwest · #168 nationally
- Jetttop-100 in 3 states of the Midwest · #169 nationally
- Knoxtop-100 in 3 states of the Midwest · #196 nationally
- Callahantop-100 in 3 states of the Midwest · #227 nationally
- Ottotop-100 in 3 states of the Midwest · #277 nationally
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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