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Names the Mountain West loves best
20 names · 10 girls · 10 boys · records through 2025
Naming has a geography. Some names are practically a local handshake in the Mountain West while the rest of the country barely knows them.
This guide has 20 names: 10 girl names and 10 boy names. Top-100 in several states of the Mountain West 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.
Before the names
Each name below ranks in the current top-100 of several states in the Mountain West yet sits outside the national top-150 — beloved at home, distinctive everywhere else.
Girl names
10 names
- Embertop-100 in 6 states of the Mountain West · #154 nationally
- Oakleytop-100 in 4 states of the Mountain West · #156 nationally
- Ximenatop-100 in 4 states of the Mountain West · #183 nationally
- Blakelytop-100 in 4 states of the Mountain West · #191 nationally
- Pipertop-100 in 3 states of the Mountain West · #155 nationally
- Sagetop-100 in 3 states of the Mountain West · #160 nationally
- Mabeltop-100 in 3 states of the Mountain West · #201 nationally
- Eliannatop-100 in 3 states of the Mountain West · #218 nationally
- Janetop-100 in 3 states of the Mountain West · #221 nationally
- Wrentop-100 in 3 states of the Mountain West · #231 nationally
Boy names
10 names
- Coltertop-100 in 4 states of the Mountain West · #157 nationally
- Hayestop-100 in 4 states of the Mountain West · #162 nationally
- Knoxtop-100 in 4 states of the Mountain West · #196 nationally
- Emiliotop-100 in 3 states of the Mountain West · #154 nationally
- Jetttop-100 in 3 states of the Mountain West · #169 nationally
- Jesustop-100 in 3 states of the Mountain West · #173 nationally
- Rykertop-100 in 3 states of the Mountain West · #182 nationally
- Azieltop-100 in 3 states of the Mountain West · #186 nationally
- Rhetttop-100 in 3 states of the Mountain West · #188 nationally
- Tatetop-100 in 3 states of the Mountain West · #193 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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