Politics has infiltrated everything this year, and it turns out names are no exception. Just ask your neighborhood Paisley, who had a top-10 name among newborns in seven states last year, all of which elected Donald Trump this fall. Or try Maya. The top 10 states where “Maya” peaked in popularity last year all preferred Hillary Clinton by substantial margins.
To examine this phenomenon, we crunched through the 10,000 baby names in the Social Security Administration’s state-by-state data figures for 2015 and found 2,800 that showed up in at least 10 different states. For each of those, we then took the 10 states where the name was most popular and looked at how the states voted in November to determine that name’s “score.” To see how political your name is, type it in below
The name Richard is extremely Democratic
Of the ten peak "Richard" states on the map below, the total vote count was 55.5 percent Democratic and 39.1 percent Republican. (Richard was most popular in Delaware, where it was the 78th most common name in 2015. Nationwide, it was ranked 155th.)