15.4% live in New York and Illinois
7.7% live in Pennsylvania, Washington DC, South Carolina, Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, Alabama, Missouri and Colorado
If you don't like people
named essence
you should probably go to
New Hampshire (None live there).
Cool fact: Kentucky
is the state with the most
first name essence per capita.
Check out the popularity
of the first name essence
for each state in the map below.