Baby Names By Region
Some names belong to a part of the country. These lists rank the names given far more often in one region than nationwide — measured from official U.S. birth birth data, with state population already divided out so the ranking reflects a genuine regional tilt, not just where more babies are born. The data records how often each name was used, never why.
Southern names
Names chosen far more often across the American South than the rest of the country.
Measured across Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Oklahoma.
Western names
Frontier and Mountain-West names — the cowboy-country picks parents make in Utah, Idaho, Montana and Colorado.
Measured across Utah, Idaho, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada.
Looking for names tied to a language or heritage instead of a place? Those live under names by origin. To see the single most place-bound names in the whole dataset, try the most regional names overall.