A good intriguing post as someone who was always looking up to local naming styles depending on the state since 2020, and I’m satisfied with the new names like Enzo, Bryan and Amaia for my state since they mingle in well with the 4th edition ones, which I saw again in this post as well.

I also got a sampler of unusually popular names from my state that I mapped myself which I can share here; through the interactive US Name map and by doing this with all the Top 100 Names, I got a sense of new local names that would fit well with Floridian naming styles. I did notice that the new names are outside of the Top 100, so I included two that were former Top 100’ers for each gender below, to be even:

Florida Boys: Jayden, Matthew, Aaron, Nicolas, Emmanuel
Florida Girls: Alaia, Ashley, Brianna, Nicole, Amanda

I did spot an outlier; Bryan is unique in Massachussets upon looking at the map because it turns MA red compared to FL which turns orange when the name is typed in. Regardless, I can shrug it off anyway. I’m down on mapping my own popularity of my own favorite names that are unique for my state; I think it might be a fun activity to give it a try that I would recommend for other name nerds.