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Names the Northeast loves best
18 names · 8 girls · 10 boys · records through 2025
Naming has a geography. Some names are practically a local handshake in the Northeast while the rest of the country barely knows them.
This guide has 18 names: 8 girl names and 10 boy names. Top-100 in several states of the Northeast 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 Northeast yet sits outside the national top-150 — beloved at home, distinctive everywhere else.
Girl names
8 names
- 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
Boy names
10 names
- 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
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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