Births in each state over the 10 years to 2025.
Ranking each state by its most popular baby names produces fifty near-identical lists — the same handful of national names, in a slightly different order. The second list in each card is the useful one: names a state chooses far more often than the country does, measured as how many times over-represented they are.
The 5-per-year withholding applies per state, so small states lose more names than large ones and their lists are thinner. Names with fewer than 25 births in the state over the window are excluded, because below that the ratio is mostly noise. Lift compares a state's share of its own births with the same name's share of the 50-state national total. Territory births are shown but excluded from that national baseline, so a Puerto Rico figure means 'relative to the mainland'. Puerto Rico's multipliers run into the thousands for exactly that reason — the names are near-exclusive to the island, so the comparison is against a mainland baseline where they barely register.