What does your name say about your politics?
Every first name here sits somewhere on the political spectrum, placed using public records from fourteen million campaign contributors and thirty-one million registered voters.
4,847 names scored. About nine in ten Americans will find theirs.
What you go by matters more than what you were named
The clearest finding in this data is not which name you were given, but which form of it you use. Across every pair we can test, the nickname sits to the right of the formal name. Same name, same families, same era. Different politics.
See all 113 pairsFurthest left, among donors
- Kateliberalconservative
- Ericaliberalconservative
- Alexandraliberalconservative
- Hilaryliberalconservative
- Alexisliberalconservative
- Vanessaliberalconservative
- Jessicaliberalconservative
- Yvetteliberalconservative
- Meganliberalconservative
- Hannahliberalconservative
- Adrienneliberalconservative
- Alisonliberalconservative
Furthest right, among donors
The same question, asked of registered voters
Donors are a particular crowd. Here is the ranking from actual party registration instead, pooled across North Carolina and Florida, counting only names that lean the same way in both states. The Democratic share is shown against a baseline of 50%.
Most Democratic
- Ebony97% DNC 97% · FL 96% · 3,226 voters
- Latoya96% DNC 96% · FL 97% · 4,901 voters
- Latasha94% DNC 94% · FL 95% · 2,431 voters
- Jermaine93% DNC 93% · FL 93% · 2,371 voters
- Cedric90% DNC 91% · FL 90% · 2,254 voters
- Keisha89% DNC 87% · FL 91% · 2,014 voters
- Tyrone89% DNC 91% · FL 87% · 3,641 voters
- Willie88% DNC 86% · FL 90% · 16,167 voters
- Darius88% DNC 88% · FL 88% · 2,507 voters
- Jasmine87% DNC 89% · FL 86% · 12,147 voters
- Maya85% DNC 90% · FL 82% · 2,444 voters
- Dominique85% DNC 90% · FL 83% · 4,544 voters
Most Republican
- Tanner19% DNC 17% · FL 22% · 2,467 voters
- Landon20% DNC 16% · FL 30% · 2,493 voters
- Hunter21% DNC 17% · FL 24% · 7,805 voters
- Dalton21% DNC 18% · FL 24% · 3,187 voters
- Cole24% DNC 24% · FL 24% · 2,929 voters
- Dustin24% DNC 18% · FL 28% · 7,623 voters
- Cody24% DNC 18% · FL 28% · 9,299 voters
- Colby25% DNC 20% · FL 30% · 2,171 voters
- Mason26% DNC 23% · FL 28% · 3,865 voters
- Chad26% DNC 22% · FL 29% · 9,882 voters
- Austin26% DNC 21% · FL 29% · 15,756 voters
- Chase27% DNC 26% · FL 28% · 4,582 voters
This list looks nothing like the donor list, and the reason is worth saying plainly. Among registered voters the strongest signal in a name is race: the most Democratic names here are names common among Black Americans, and the most Republican are young, white, rural-sounding ones. Among donors that signal is faint, because Black Americans are heavily under-represented in the donor pool, and what shows through instead is age and sex. Neither list is wrong. They describe different people.
One thing to know before you read too much into it
These numbers describe people who donate money to campaigns, who are older and wealthier than the country. Where we can check a name against actual voter registration, donors and voters sometimes point in opposite directions. Every name page shows both, side by side, rather than averaging them into one confident-looking number.
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