Western Names 1: Surfer Names

A while back, I did an analysis of "Southern" names, and after recently returning from SoCal, was inspired to do one for Western names as well.
Instead of the entire "Western" region, I'm only doing the Pacific Western states (CA, OR, WA, AK, HI), but I imagine I'll tackle the Mountain Western states sometime soon as well.

Here the "most Pacific" names (by % of babies given that name) from the Pacific states' combined Top 1000:
Boys:

1. Makoa
2. Kekoa
3. Keoni
4. Koa
5. Arley
6. Kainoa
7. Arman
8. Everardo
9. Noa
10. Sunny
11. Arvin
12. Salvador
13. Madison
14. Ulises
15. Emiliano
16. Nikita
17. Rigoberto
18. Gonzalo
19. Octavio
20. Ernesto

Nice to see several Hawaiian names. <3

Girls:

1. Izel
2. Sequoia
3. Jaylene
4. Emi
5. Citlali
6. Xitlali
7. Darlene
8. Adilene
9. Jayleen
10. Vicky
11. Arlene
12. Hana
13. Yaretzy
14. Julieta
15. Itzel
16. Maribel
17. Belinda
18. Noemi
19. Darla
20. Jaylah

Okay, I was expecting lots of Spanish names. I was not expecting all those "leens"!

To narrow things a bit further, from the Pacific Top 500:
Boys:

1. Salvador
2. Emiliano
3. Ernesto
4. Damian
5. Francisco
6. Ruben
7. Joaquin
8. Ismael
9. Saul
10. Esteban
11. Andy
12. Gustavo
13. Adan
14. Vicente
15. Armando
16. Alfredo
17. Maximiliano
18. Mateo
19. Valentino
20. Sergio

Girls:

1. Jaylene
2. Jayleen
3. Hana
4. Julieta
5. Itzel
6. Noemi
7. Jaylah
8. Aileen
9. Guadalupe
10. Monserrat
11. Yaretzi
12. Aimee
13. Esmeralda
14. Julissa
15. Kenia
16. Paloma
17. Frida
18. Montserrat
19. Irene
20. Kassandra

And finally, the most Pacific names from the states' Top 100:

Boys:

1. Damian
2. Mateo
3. Diego
4. Jesus
5. Ivan
6. Santiago
7. Angel
8. Leonardo
9. Julian
10. Miguel
11. Adrian
12. Juan
13. Carlos
14. Jose
15. Luis
16. Nathan
17. Sebastian
18. Aaron
19. Giovanni
20. Elias

Girls:

1. Valerie
2. Ximena
3. Delilah
4. Alina
5. Camila
6. Valeria
7. Alexa
8. Melanie
9. Luna
10. Natalia
11. Amy
12. Athena
13. Valentina
14. Andrea
15. Nicole
16. Samantha
17. Sofia
18. Jasmine
19. Melody
20. Victoria

I might be biased, but I think those are pretty great lists! Love all those multilingual names. 

For comparison's sake, here is the Pacific Top 10, alongside the National Top 10:

	Pacific	National
1.	Noah	Noah
2.	Jacob	Liam
3.	Ethan	Mason
4.	Daniel	Jacob
5.	Alexander	William
6.	Matthew	Ethan
7.	Liam	James
8.	Jayden	Alexander
9.	Sebastian	Michael
10.	Benjamin	Benjamin

	Pacific	National
1.	Sophia	Emma
2.	Emma	Olivia
3.	Mia	Sophia
4.	Olivia	Ava
5.	Isabella	Isabella
6.	Emily	Mia
7.	Sofia	Abigail
8.	Abigail	Emily
9.	Ava	Charlotte
10.	Charlotte	Harper

And should you be interested in the full Pacific Top 1000, it is here, in Google Sheets. :)

I also wanted to go a bit further this time, and see what names appeared only in the Pacific states, but the results were much smaller, and more obscure, than I'd expected. They were also all in either CA or HI.
CA: Harut, Gevork, Mher (boys); Serly, Maneh, Jazzleen, Anmol (girls)
HI: Lawaia, Kiai (boys); Hilinai (girls)

So, I settled for finding the most disproportionately common (by %) names in each state. (So, for instance, you're about 8x more likely to run into a Narek in CA than in the rest of the US as a whole)
CA: Narek, Sahib, Arley, Everardo, Sunny (boys); Raylene, Izel, Avleen, Arleen, Jazlene (girls)
HI: Kaeo, Kaimana, Ikaika, Makoa, Kaizen (boys); Lilinoe, Mahina, Anela, Kalena, Kalea (girls)
AK: Paxson, Killian, Ronan, Gideon, Walter (boys); Aurora, Juniper, Sage, Cassidy, Kinley (girls)
OR: Sage, Soren, Malakai, Kellen, Arlo (boys); Opal, Juniper, Faye, Louisa, Esme (girls)
WA: Soren, Anton, Anders, Maxim, Odin (boys); Roslyn, Pepper, Linnea, Opal, Bentley (girls)

I came across a couple interesting quirks:
--Firstly, I initially narrowed my search for "most representative" to the top 2/5 of names for each state (the lists vary in length quite a bit, with the largest, CA, having 14x as many names as the smallest, AK), but I just had to stretch that a bit in Alaska so I could include Paxson.
There were 33 Paxsons born in the US last year. 10 were in AK. 10! 1/3 of all new Paxsons were born in 4th least populated state.
--Secondly, by the indecisiveness of Oregon parents, and/or some oddity in how Oregon birth certificates are filled out, over 60% of babies officially named Unknown in the entire US were born in OR.

And no, the few repeating names are not errors; those names are just much more concentrated in both states for whatever reasons.


So what sort of names are the "least Pacific"? Turns out, modern creative spellings and innovations: Brantley, Braylon, Brycen, Landyn, Karter; Kennedi, Ryleigh, Londyn, Brynlee, Kayleigh, and the like.