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But you will also see a lot of Italian and Portuguese-derived names in the Northeast, because Italian and Portuguese are very prevalent backgrounds in those areas.
It's kind of almost a cliche that Utah parents tend to pick more unusual, tryndee-seeming names for their babies, like Kinsley and Braxton and such.

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But in general, I'd say that family's ethnic backgrounds, family tradition and other factors are much more to do with the prevlalence of names than pure geography is.

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