Names the Midwest loves best
Naming has a geography. Some names are practically a local handshake in the Midwest while the rest of the country barely knows them.
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.
Girls
- 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
Boys
- 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
How this list is built: Top-100 in several states of the Midwest while outside the national top-150 (or unranked). Source: US Social Security birth records, refreshed yearly.
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