Mom and dad attract infant name inspiration from a wide variety of resources ― relatives history, pop culture, literature and even food stuff. For many, geography delivers meaningful ideas.
But American mother and father are not just turning to glamorous international locales like Paris and London for infant name fodder. Many of them are sticking closer to home and picking the names of U.S. states and cash metropolitan areas.
States such as Alabama, Alaska, Missouri and Utah have found new life in the kind of infant names, according to the Social Safety Administration. We scoured the latest SSA data ― which consists of names specified to five or much more infants born in 2019 ― to discover which of the 50 states and cash metropolitan areas have manufactured the leap from maps to delivery certificates.
With no more ado, listed here are 43 U.S. point out and cash metropolis names American mother and father gave their infants in 2019. (Although Carolina and Dakota are not whole point out names, it is possible that a truthful range of mother and father chose them as a nod to North or South Carolina and North or South Dakota. The very same goes for some of the other names down below.)
States
Arizona (a hundred twenty five ladies, five boys)
Dakota (1,264 ladies, 959 boys)
Indiana (104 ladies, eighty three boys)
Kansas (25 ladies, five boys)
Montana (120 ladies, a hundred and ten boys)
Nevada (21 ladies, seven boys)
Tennessee (32 ladies, seventeen boys)
Capitals
Montgomery (24 ladies, 183 boys)
Juneau (14 ladies, ten boys)
Phoenix (1,017 ladies, 1,399 boys)
Denver (three hundred ladies, 419 boys)
Augusta (forty nine ladies, seven boys)
Boston (52 ladies, 448 boys)
Jackson (26 ladies, ten,102 boys)
Lincoln (182 ladies, seven,432 boys)
Raleigh (160 ladies, ninety nine boys)
Salem (372 ladies, 235 boys)
Austin (160 ladies, four,369 boys)
Charleston (88 ladies, sixty nine boys)
Madison (six,269 ladies, 31 boys)
Cheyenne (624 ladies, 11 boys)