U.S. States as First Names

Identify the top 5 most common first names derived from U.S. states. Directional or descriptive modifiers are removed to identify the core name (e.g. "New York" is counted as "York." Statistics are provided by HowManyOfMe.site, which aggregates official government data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Social Security Administration (SSA) to estimate population counts.