You'll find more traditional names in the original 13 states
(NEWSER) - Sarah Palin's brood—Bristol, Willow, Track, Piper, and Trig—are more typical than you think, at least when it comes to their names. Babies born in the youngest of the 50 states have more unusual names than newborns in the original 13 states and their neighbors, finds a new study. The researchers looked at baby-name data from 2007, and found that more wee ones in New England bore the most popular boys' and girls' names than those in the Mountain West and Pacific Northwest did. More»
