Message: "Oh beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of... names?"

Oh beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of... names?

by Nanaea

11/14/2001, 9:19 PM

Just for fun, I thought I'd go through Social Security statistics for numbers of babies born in the U.S. in the year 2000, issued a Soc. Sec. card, and given names after one of the 50 states.

Alaska - 18 girls
Arizona - 45 girls; 9 boys
Carolina - 1,251 girls
Dakota - 1,066 girls; 4,469 boys
Georgia - 921 girls
Indiana - 23 girls; 26 boys
Jersey - 6 girls; 9 boys
Kansas - 24 girls
Montana - 422 girls; 138 boys
Nevada - 33 girls; 25 boys
Tennessee - 5 girls; 5 boys
Texas - 6 boys
Utah - 8 boys
Virginia - 795 girls
Washington - 5 boys

-- Nanaea

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- Andrea (guest) +1

11/14/2001, 11:08 PM

That many Carolina's, or are you including Caroline's?

- Nanaea

11/15/2001, 6:08 AM

No, I didn't include the Carolines. But if I had included the Dakotahs, Dakodas, and Dakottas (of both sexes) the name "Dakota" would've shot off the scale.

-- Nanaea

- Pavlos Massachusettsopoulos (guest) +1

11/15/2001, 2:33 AM

...which leaves 36 potential names up for grabs :)

- Phyllis Pennsylvania (guest)

11/15/2001, 4:13 PM

Hee hee hehe :)

Phyllis (aka Sidhe Uaine or Gaia Euphoria)

- Nancy (guest)

11/15/2001, 4:59 AM

Interesting...I like Montana and Jersey...

- 'Cole (guest)

11/17/2001, 11:12 AM

I'm liking Georgia and Jersey...

Georgia because that's where my family's from, and Jersey because I just finished watching Miss Conginality (again) with Sandra Bullock who plays a beauty pagent contestant from New Jersey. Everyone called her Jersey and I thought it sounded cool.

- Tracie (guest)

11/18/2001, 5:58 PM

Jeff and I like Georgia and Maine. Both names are for girls.

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