Map: Six Decades of the Most Popular Names for Girls, State-by-State

[MissLlanviewPA]

I have an obsession with baby names, so this article is manna in the desert for me:

http://jezebel.com/map-sixty-years-of-the-most-popular-names-for-girls-s-1443501909

My name is Mary, so it's kind of funny/cool to see a map of the US almost completely covered in my name.

I was born in 1989, though, so by that time it wasn't so common.

OTOH, seeing the name Jennifer on those 70s' maps repeatedly...Holy Christ.

[quartermainefan]

Who is Sophia? Is that from some book or movie that inspired everybody? I do know in school we had a ton of Lisas. Anyway, this map is interesting because it shows you how boring most parents are.

[JackPeyton]

Sophia is the name of one of the daughters on the first teen mom from 2009. The name does pop up out of nowhere in 2010. I'm sure it's from something else I just can't think of any Sophia around that time in anything.

[DRW50]

Maybe there are a lot of Sophia Bush fans out there.

[MissLlanviewPA]

I guess Golden Girls reruns could have done it. Ironic, given that Sophia belonged to the oldest one.

[allmc2008]

Wow!! Its like the name Jennifer blew up or something. I heard that Lisa from ATWT is responsbile from the popularity of Lisa as a mainstream name. Same with Jennifer from Love Story.

[alphanguy74]

This just goes to show how people copy everybody else. My grandparents generation had names that were popular at the time as well, Ethel, Inez, Adaline.

[juppiter]

There is now a boys' version: http://jezebel.com/map-six-decades-of-the-most-popular-names-for-boys-st-1450787771

Michael dominated even longer than Jennifer. I do know a million Michaels, and it's my brother's name and my middle name.

tbh the trendy boys' names are less annoying than the trendy girls' names to me for some reason.

[JackPeyton]

Mason BLEW UP after Queen Kourtney named her bb that.

[All My Shadows]

And we all know why Jayden was popular in Louisiana for a while.

[Sundance]

Type your first and last name to see how may people in the U.S. have your same name: http://ww2.howmanyofme.com

[AlexElizabeth]

Alex - There are 185,375 people in the U.S. with the first name Alex. 98.29 percent of people with the first name Alex are male. I find that very hard to believe.

Alexandria - 22,182

Last name - 47,250

Alexandria + last name - 3 people. Yay! I'm soooo unique!

[juppiter]

I don't think it's accurate because it says there is only 1 person in the U.S. with my exact name but a simple google search reveals at least 1 other.

[Huntress]

Thought this would fit in here somehow.

Most common boys', girls' and family names in every European country: