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Southern charm: names the South loves best
25 names · 13 girls · 12 boys · records through 2025
Naming has a geography, and nowhere is it warmer than the South. Some names are practically a regional handshake.
This guide has 25 names: 13 girl names and 12 boy names. Top-100 in 3+ of AL, MS, GA, LA, TN, SC, AR, KY 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 at least three Southern states yet stays outside the national top-150 — beloved at home, distinctive everywhere else.
Girl names
13 names
- Oaklynntop-100 in 8 states of the South · #153 nationally
- Annietop-100 in 6 states of the South · #182 nationally
- Wrenleytop-100 in 5 states of the South · #158 nationally
- Blakelytop-100 in 5 states of the South · #191 nationally
- Oakleytop-100 in 4 states of the South · #156 nationally
- Suttontop-100 in 4 states of the South · #181 nationally
- Everleightop-100 in 4 states of the South · #194 nationally
- Pipertop-100 in 3 states of the South · #155 nationally
- Alanitop-100 in 3 states of the South · #161 nationally
- Nevaehtop-100 in 3 states of the South · #165 nationally
- Saylortop-100 in 3 states of the South · #217 nationally
- Collinstop-100 in 3 states of the South · #241 nationally
- Journeetop-100 in 3 states of the South · #258 nationally
Boy names
12 names
- Kingstontop-100 in 6 states of the South · #204 nationally
- Legendtop-100 in 5 states of the South · #193 nationally
- Beckhamtop-100 in 4 states of the South · #168 nationally
- Brysontop-100 in 3 states of the South · #152 nationally
- Coltertop-100 in 3 states of the South · #157 nationally
- Hayestop-100 in 3 states of the South · #162 nationally
- Barretttop-100 in 3 states of the South · #171 nationally
- Braxtontop-100 in 3 states of the South · #172 nationally
- Tuckertop-100 in 3 states of the South · #181 nationally
- Rykertop-100 in 3 states of the South · #182 nationally
- Messiahtop-100 in 3 states of the South · #207 nationally
- Dallastop-100 in 3 states of the South · #238 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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