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The most popular given names by state in the United States vary. This is a list of the top 10 names in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia for the years 1996 through 2023. This information is taken from the "Popular Baby Names" database maintained by the United States Social Security Administration. [1]
In the United States, vital records are typically maintained at both the county [1] and state levels. [2] In the United Kingdom and numerous other countries vital records are recorded in the civil registry. In the United States, vital records are public and in most cases can be viewed by anyone in person at the governmental authority. [3]
A vital statistics system is defined by the United Nations "as the total process of (a) collecting information by civil registration or enumeration on the frequency or occurrence of specified and defined vital events, as well as relevant characteristics of the events themselves and the person or persons concerned, and (b) compiling, processing, analyzing, evaluating, presenting, and ...
The state or territory issued birth certificate is a secure A4 paper document, generally listing: Full name at birth, sex at birth, parent(s) and occupation(s), older sibling(s), address(es), date and place of birth, name of the registrar, date of registration, date of issue of certificate, a registration number, with the signature of the ...
Map showing the source languages/language families of state names. The fifty U.S. states, the District of Columbia, the five inhabited U.S. territories, and the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands have taken their names from a wide variety of languages. The names of 24 states derive from indigenous languages of the Americas and one from Hawaiian.
In Mexico, vital records (birth, death and marriage certificates) are registered in the Registro Civil, as called in Spanish. Each state has its own registration form. Until the 1960s, birth certificates were written by hand, in a styled, cursive calligraphy (almost unreadable for the new generations) and typically issued on security paper ...
Mary Jarrett White, first woman to vote in the state of Georgia [50] Charlie Whitehurst, football player; born in Wisconsin [51] Steve Whitmire, puppeteer [52] Eli Whitney, inventor; born in Massachusetts [53] Laura Slade Wiggins, actress, singer, musician; J. J. Wilcox, football player [54] Dominique Wilkins, basketball player [55]
Name Image Birth Death Known for Association Reference Henry L. Benning: Apr 2, 1814: Jul 10, 1875: Judge on the Georgia Supreme Court; Confederate Army general; namesake of Fort Benning: Born and died in Columbus [28] Eugene Bullard: Oct 9, 1895: Oct 12, 1961: First African-American military pilot Born in Columbus [29] William Calley: Jun 8, 1943