Names that seem to be unique to your area (Kirby in MN)

[Breezy du Nord]

I swear, I know at least 4 people named after the Twinkies player (my dad wanted to name both me and my brother Kirby) and at least a dozen of people's pets also have the name.

So, my question: In areas where you live are there names that appear to be popular but not so much in other parts of the country?
And, would you follow this trend?

Breezy

[JohnKleeb]

1. hmmmmmm

Well I dont know anyone with whose first name is my middle name is. The name is Howard btw.

[Breezy du Nord]

2. You see, with john it wouldn't be so much

cuz there are Johns everywhere, but, like do you think whereever Eisenhower was from there were a lot of kids named Dwight?

I would've laughed my ass off at that school.

Breezy

(btw, my middle name is rose, not that anyone cares:P)

[JohnKleeb]

7. Eisenhower was from Texas or Kansas

He never really had a genuine state imo, towards the end of his life he lived in PA and I think that was the state he ran from as president. Eisenhower's real name was David but he switched David Dwight Eisenhower to Dwight David Eisenhower, also maybe I could be related somehow :), heres how my aunt married an eisenhower I dont know. I am not sure if my uncle was what Ike was, my aunt was a Catholic like me though.

[zeemike]

3. Boy is there ever

Because the Spanish have lived here for 400 years many of the names would be unusual in most of the country.
My next-door neighbors name is Onesimo, and his son is called Tomas. And there are dozens of other names that I had never heard before I came here.

[Breezy du Nord]

4. Onesimo?

That's a really cool name. (I have a sort of affection for odd-sounding names)

[zeemike]

8. There are a lot of them here

Corlinda, Lupita, Loopi … they go on and on.

[SOteric]

10. Lupita and

Lupe (Loopi) are differing forms of the same name, Guadalupe. 'Lupita' usually denotes the smaller, or younger Guadalupe.

[carpetbagger]

5. There are some cool Latino names.

Xenon, Tiburcio, Emil, Hipolito, Octavio, Hilario, Porfirio, Dario, Quirino, and so forth.

[Breezy du Nord]

6. Wow, those are sweet

I like to use cool names when I write you see.

[Cheswick2.0]

22. names with almost no vowels.. slavic people were too poor to buy a vowel

chzysnisky, brschavoskvtz... okay I am making these up, but you get the idea

[JohnKleeb]

23. hey I am a slav

:) ok only half
By the way here are the slavic names in my family tree
Beltz, Kovalcik, and thats all I know
Beltz is Slovene and Kovalcik is Slovak and those names you made up sound Polish.

[Cheswick2.0]

24. we have Poles, Ukrainian and Slovak

It is an area where a lot of men came to work in the mines.

[JohnKleeb]

25. interesting

My two Slavic great grandfathers were miners.

[HEyHEY]

9. possibly

Kade, Kale.
Morgan
Bjossa - beeyosa

[Breezy du Nord]

11. Bjossa, that's cool

Keep em coming men!

[jody]

12. Some surname migrations can be seen at the following link

if you select the "All Years" option under "Years" U.S. Surname Distribution

[Breezy du Nord]

14. That's neat

It doesn't have my name on there, but it's still really cool.

[jody]

15. OK but try your mother's surname, and the surnames of other ancestors

Go back 10 generations and potentially you have over 1,000 separate genetic input strands.

Go back 20 generations and the potential is about 1 million DNA threads.

Go back 30 generations and the potential is about 1 billion separate threads.

Of course intermarriages reduce that number but many people contributed to each of us.

:hi: :-)

[Breezy du Nord]

16. How many czech people are in the United States

Cause we are go to take over all of you! MUAHAHAHAHAHA!

oops. hee hee. Sorry

[JohnKleeb]

20. Thats ok

I am 25% your neighbor to the east, sorry that some of us collebarted with the Germans but we had Dubcek. Sorry I know a little about Czech history. That said, I really wanna go to Czechoslovakia. My name wasnt there too.

[short bus president]

13. Fuqua-Varina?

Weirdest name in NC. Watch how you pronounce it.

[gardenista]

17. Britagon, Othella, Delphine, Maxine,

In Maryland

Also a whole passel of Marlenes & Darlenes

[Dogmudgeon]

18. Amy in Philadelphia

It's not exactly unique, but you still can't swing a dead cat in Philly without whacking an Amy, especially if you're around the U of Pee.

I've always liked the name, and its super-popularity hasn't affected that much. Three letters, one consonant, and it's cognate with my own first name. Which, as a Manly Man, is not Amy.

I also lived out west, near Sacramento, back in the mid 1980s, and there were absolute bumper crops of Julies, Carries, and kiwifruit. I guess those gals would be about 40 now, telling their teenage Tiffanys to Just Say No.

--bkl
Hunkering down for the Attack Of The Jasons.

[SOteric]

19. Nina, -only pronounced

Nine-uh, in the Scandinavian fashion.

[Nikia]

21. In Ohio

There were multiple Sunshines and Jaycees.

[BiggJawn]

26. Yoder.

LOTS of Yoders around here.
And I think some of the northern ones are even Amish.

[roguevalley]

27. Lots of Russian and Norwegian names here in Alaska

and lots of Eskimo/Indian names: Kalifornski and such.

Moonin is HUGE up here. :)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

28. I never met anyone named

Kayleen before moving to Oregon. But I had half a dozen students by that name during my teaching career.