What baby names are unique to Washington?

Ruvim is the name most distinctive to Washington, given about 18 times more often there than in the United States as a whole. Kramer, Avenir and Unnamed follow.

How is a distinctive name measured?

Each name's share of births in Washington is compared with its share nationally. The multiplier shown is the conservative low end of that ratio, so a name carried by a handful of births cannot outrank one carried by hundreds.

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Names unique to Washington

The most distinctive Washington baby names, 1910–2025

These are the names given far more often in Washington than anywhere else in the country, across the whole record from 1910 to 2025. Ruvim leads: it is given about 18× more often here than across the United States as a whole.

The multiplier compares each name's share of Washington births with its share nationally, and reports the conservative low end of that comparison — so a name carried by a handful of births cannot outrank one carried by hundreds.

Across the whole record, 1910–2025

#	Name	Births	vs national
1	Ruvim	208	18×
2	Kramer	116	12×
3	Avenir	96	11×
4	Unnamed	115	10×
5	Vadim	92	9×
6	Aldah	5	8×
7	Vitaliy	67	8×
8	Artem	135	7×
9	Dmitriy	75	7×
10	Alder	155	6×
11	Rainier	92	5×
12	Pavel	133	5×
13	Liliya	57	5×
14	Nazar	55	4×
15	Andrey	209	4×
16	Milana	483	4×
17	Cedar	275	4×
18	Leif	623	4×
19	Arne	186	4×
20	Asees	37	4×
21	Inna	45	4×
22	Yana	176	4×
23	Maxim	428	4×
24	Soren	692	4×
25	Kellen	1,058	4×
26	Dick	1,624	4×
27	Bjorn	319	4×
28	Sergey	38	4×
29	Aadya	131	4×
30	Maksim	165	4×
31	Abdullahi	113	3×
32	Kainoa	157	3×
33	Juniper	1,139	3×
34	Makena	358	3×
35	Tawnya	269	3×
36	Karlyne	5	3×
37	Anders	412	3×
38	Magnus	317	3×
39	Ron	1,761	3×
40	Tami	1,835	3×

Right now, in 2025

A different list from the one above, and not a contradiction: these are the names distinctive to Washington in a single recent year rather than across the whole record.

Name	Births	vs national
Avenir	13	20×
Ruvim	7	12×
Arth	6	9×
Solomiya	6	9×
Theophilus	6	9×
Alder	20	8×
Rainier	7	6×
Amen	12	6×
Denny	5	6×
Ezana	5	6×

Decade by decade

The single most distinctive name of each decade.

Decade	Name	vs national
1910s	Patricia	4×
1920s	Aldah	15×
1930s	Ron	10×
1940s	Ron	6×
1950s	Arne	9×
1960s	Arne	7×
1970s	Leif	4×
1980s	Kramer	9×
1990s	Ruvim	15×
2000s	Ruvim	15×
2010s	Ruvim	10×
2020s	Ruvim	11×

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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. State records begin in 1910. Names given to fewer than five babies in a state in a year are withheld at source. namelegacy.org