Overview
Driving through New England, you start to see a pattern: Manchester (Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine), Salem (Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire), Amherst (Massachusetts, New Hampshire) and on and on and on. That got me thinking, is this just a New England thing?
For this fun little project, I created an interactive infographic that shows some facts about U.S. city names and lets users see how common different names are. It was a fun way to experiment with D3.js and large data sets (geonames.org).
![](http://ashleyengelhardt.com/wordpress_portfolio/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/CityNames-bar.png)
![](http://ashleyengelhardt.com/wordpress_portfolio/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cityscape.png)
Interesting City Facts
Villes
are popular places
![](http://ashleyengelhardt.com/wordpress_portfolio/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cities-bubble.png)
S
is the most popular letter
![](http://ashleyengelhardt.com/wordpress_portfolio/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cities-s.png)
Ben Franklin
was a popular dude
![](http://ashleyengelhardt.com/wordpress_portfolio/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cities-popular.png)