Which US State Name Would Make the Best (Or Least Worst) First Name for a Person? (social security, capita)

[SunGrins]

Nebraska, Utah, Ohio, Maine, and Oklahoma would be bad. I've heard of Alabama as a woman's name.

Canadian Provinces would be interesting. Alberta? Ontario?
Maybe not Labrador or Saskatchewan.

[rnc2mbfl]

Right off the bat, any state name with 2 words would be a horrific name. Imagine naming your kid New Jersey or South Dakota, etc.

[g500]

In order:

Best female: Virginia, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana (maybe)

Best male: Montana, Washington, Tennessee, Colorado, Indiana. Montana seems the coolest to me.

Absolute worst (regardless of gender): Idaho, Rhode Island, any with New (New York, New Jersey, New Mexico, New Hampshire), any with cardinal direction (West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, North Dakota, South Dakota)

[arr430]

State names don't fit the flow that grew with the language, they are jarring, borrowed from different linguistic stock, shoe-horned in..

State capitals emerged within the language, from familiar namesakes.

[masssachoicetts]

There are a lot of girls named Montana.

[James Bond 007]

I have a co-worker who named his daughter Dakota.

[arr430]

Thanks to the endurance of Root Latin, any name becomes feminizsd by ending iwt -A. Augusta, Olympia, Maria, Paula, Verna, Georgia, Louisa. Also by LLatin rule, mames of countries are grammatically feminine -- America, Germania, Italia, Asia, Czechia, Terra Incognita.

[midwest1]

Ohio would be a good name for a Japanese person...sounds like Good Morning in Japanese...

[citylove101]

Washington might be a good boy’s name. Also maybe Texas (Tex you’d call him). Georgia and Virginia for girls.

I actually know a woman whose middle name is California.

[KathrynAragon]

Originally Posted by citylove101

Washington might be a good boy’s name. Also maybe Texas (Tex you’d call him). Georgia and Virginia for girls.

I actually know a woman whose middle name is California.

I know a Georgia (several actually) and a Virginia!