Names the Northeast loves best
Naming has a geography. Some names are practically a local handshake in the Northeast while the rest of the country barely knows them.
Each name below ranks in the current top-100 of several states in the Northeast yet sits outside the national top-150 — beloved at home, distinctive everywhere else.
Girls
- Summertop-100 in 5 states of the Northeast · #151 nationally
- Peytontop-100 in 4 states of the Northeast · #199 nationally
- Pipertop-100 in 3 states of the Northeast · #155 nationally
- Viviennetop-100 in 3 states of the Northeast · #172 nationally
- Ariellatop-100 in 3 states of the Northeast · #174 nationally
- Mabeltop-100 in 3 states of the Northeast · #201 nationally
- Miriamtop-100 in 3 states of the Northeast · #246 nationally
- Francescatop-100 in 3 states of the Northeast · #307 nationally
Boys
- Connortop-100 in 6 states of the Northeast · #166 nationally
- Chasetop-100 in 5 states of the Northeast · #192 nationally
- Elliottop-100 in 4 states of the Northeast · #151 nationally
- Coletop-100 in 4 states of the Northeast · #182 nationally
- Callantop-100 in 4 states of the Northeast · #190 nationally
- Finntop-100 in 4 states of the Northeast · #206 nationally
- Jaxsontop-100 in 3 states of the Northeast · #156 nationally
- Nicotop-100 in 3 states of the Northeast · #174 nationally
- Maxwelltop-100 in 3 states of the Northeast · #189 nationally
- Griffintop-100 in 3 states of the Northeast · #222 nationally
How this list is built: Top-100 in several states of the Northeast while outside the national top-150 (or unranked). Source: US Social Security birth records, refreshed yearly.
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