Surprises in my State

[vbjodi05]

Hi All,

I just did this for the girls and now thought I'd share for the boys....

I recently went to the Social Security name site and checked the top 100 names in my state and thought it would be interesting to start a thread about surprises in your state, since quite a few stood out to me. Below are names listed in UTAH that made the top 100 in 2010, but are not in the national top 100.

NAME, UTAH RANK/US RANK
Ryker, 26/311
Lincoln, 28/197
Boston, 51/545
Porter, 56/446
Asher, 57/139
Braxton, 58/171
Ashton, 64/126
Tyson, 67/237
Bridger, 71/916
Hudson, 73/138
Jace, 76/146
Kaden, 77/106
Ryder, 80/135
Sawyer, 81/173
Miles, 82/137
Kyler, 88/269
Daxton, 89/747
Seth, 91/165
Gage, 93/152
Preston, 95/131
Camden, 96/179
Jude, 97/170
Corbin, 98/250
Tanner, 100/176


I'm not surprised by many of these, however the few that stood out to me are:
Ryker, Boston, Porter, Tyson, Bridger, Kyler, Daxton, Corbin

Thoughts? What names top the charts in your state or area that you might be surprised about??

[ashthedreamer]

Wow, that's a lot!

For my state:

Colin 76/111
Bryce 79/112
Sean 80/103
Brady 81/125
Shane 82/200
Vincent 84/109
Nolan 89/104
Patrick 90/129
Kyle 91/107
Jake 95/129
Timothy 97/115
Gage 99/152
Micah 100/108

None of this really surprises me, though--all the people in Pennsylvania I know go for fairly traditional sorts of names--it took me a while until I got to one that was in the PA top 100 that wasn't in the national one--and that's because they're all sort of dated, haha.

I figured I'd do the girls' list, too:

Lydia 55/111 (no surprise here--I hear Lydia all over the place, from my age all the way down to new babies... Lydia is definitely a Pennsylvania favorite!)
Sadie 63/118
Mary 65/109
Rylee 70/102 (no surprise here, either! I meet so many Rileys/Rylees/Ryleighs everywhere I go!)
Jordyn 81/112
Mya 83/101
Katelyn 85/103
Julianna 86/176
Lilly 87/107
London 88/108
Kendall 89/133
Alivia 91/174
Adrianna 95/173
Jenna 97/141
Megan 98/131
Juliana 100/145

The only one for the girls that really surprised me was Juliana and Sadie--I'm pleasantly surprised that they're in the top 100 for PA! I was also pretty happy about Patrick and Mary. The others are quite predictable to me--Pennsylvanians seem to love their unisex, and dated, fairly classic, 100-range type names, lol.

[whit32]

A couple from my state: Jose #2, Angel #4. This is for Texas. The one I really am surprised by is on the girl side. Apparently the name Genesis is in the 20-30 range. I've never even heard that one, though I have heard Isis, maybe they use that as a nn?

[ashthedreamer]

A couple from my state: Jose #2, Angel #4. This is for Texas. The one I really am surprised by is on the girl side. Apparently the name Genesis is in the 20-30 range. I've never even heard that one, though I have heard Isis, maybe they use that as a nn?

Really? Genesis is also in the top 100 nationally. I know a Genesis who goes by just Genesis... I figured it was in the top 100 in my state, too, but apparently it's not. I used to really like it--I actually went through a phase of wanting to name all my kids after books in the Bible, lol (my favorite was Revelation nn Shelly, though, haha).

[vbjodi05]

Thanks for sharing. It is pretty interesting how different naming styles can be from state to state.