The 2020 Vote Preferences of 102 Common First Names

Over the past two months, The New York Times and Siena College have conducted polls in almost every battleground state, creating a large database of likely voters and their preferences. This database allowed us to take an unusual look at the American electorate — one based on first names.

We’ve put together a short quiz to see how well you can guess the patterns that emerged. If you want to take it, click here. We hope you’ll learn as much about politics and culture as we learned in putting it together.

And here is a searchable table with all 102 names for which we had at least 30 respondents. We encourage you not to make too much of small differences between any two names, given the sample sizes.