Odd baby names in "frontier" states

[Michael McKernan]

I believe that Arizona, the last frontier state of the "lower 48" does not
appear on the male top-10 odd-name list, and is only 7th on the female list.

But one would suppose there are plenty of Hispanic and Native American given
names here.

Arizona should qualify as "Mountain West"...not to mention  "Wild West."
And no one dare claim to exceed Arizona in individualism...them's fightin'
words, and we'll sic Sherriff Arpaio on anyone who tries to
out-individualizs us!  The Arizona Senate is probably even now drawing up a
Defense of Individualism Act, and planning to lock up
popular-name-conformists wherever they show their ugly IDs.  We do need some
help on how to ethnically/racially profile them, since many probably have
false IDs (wouldn't you?).

Michael McKernan
Benson, Arizona

On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Paul Johnston <paul.johnston at wmich.edu>wrote:

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> I  wonder if Hawaii's ranking doesn't have a lot to do with how ethnically
> diverse Hawaii is.  You're bound to have a lot of Hawaiian, Japanese,
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> > Slightly odd use of "frontier" also:
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> http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20110227/sc_livescience/babiesinfrontierstateshavemoreunusualnames
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