| 100% | ACITY | 5 | "Just ___ boy, born and raised in South Detroit" (lyric from "Don't Stop Believin'") |
| 37% | JOURNEY | 7 | Don't Stop Believin' and Faithfully singers |
| 36% | FROM | 4 | Born and raised in |
| 34% | JOURNEY | 7 | Band that released Don't Stop Believin' in 1981 |
| 33% | ALABAMA | 7 | Forrest Gump was born and raised in this state |
| 32% | MICHELLEWIE | 11 | ___ West, LPGA star who was born and raised in Hawaii: 2 wds. |
| 32% | AULIICRAVALHO | 13 | "Moana" voice actress who was born and raised in Hawaii: 2 wds. |
| 32% | DORRIT | 6 | “Little ___” (Dickens novel about a girl born and raised in a debtors’ prison) |
| 31% | BETTEMIDLER | 11 | "Wind Beneath My Wings" singer who was born and raised in Hawaii: 2 wds. |
| 30% | JOURNEY | 7 | Don't Stop Believin' band |
| 30% | AMYDORRIT | 9 | Title character of an 1857 novel by Charles Dickens born and raised in the Marshalsea debtors' prison |
| 29% | TINTIN | 6 | Boy reporter and adventurer in comic strips by Herge from 1929 |
| 28% | NEE | 3 | Born and raised? |
| 27% | JOURNEY | 7 | Band that sang Don't Stop Believin' |
| 26% | FLEETWOODMAC | 12 | "Don't Stop" pop band that released a self-titled album in both 1968 and 1975: 2 wds. |
| 26% | DRAG | 4 | “Don’t be a ___, just be a queen” (lyric in Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way”) |
| 26% | JOURNEY | 7 | "Don't Stop Believin'" band |
| 26% | MEIR | 4 | Prime minister born in Kiev and raised in Milwaukee |
| 26% | IOWA | 4 | Where James T. Kirk was born and raised |
| 26% | BASKET | 6 | Don't put all your eggs in just one |
| 26% | THEHOUSEATPOOHCORNER | 20 | ''. . . in that enchanted place . . . a little boy and his Bear will always be playing'' (1928) |
| 25% | ELIDE | 5 | Sing "Don't Stop Believin'," say? |
| 25% | FLORIDA | 7 | Rapper and singer whose name comes from the state he was born in: 2 wds. |
| 25% | ANI | 3 | Black long tailed bird from the Cuckoo family, found mostly in Central and South America |
| 25% | THEO | 4 | Letter you don't pronounce in "jeopardy" and "leopard" |
| 25% | RAMBLED | 7 | "He wouldn't stop talking! He just ___ on and on." |
| 25% | NASTY | 5 | "___ boys don't mean a thing" (Janet Jackson lyric) |
| 25% | ITHACAN | 7 | One born and raised near Cornell’s campus |
| 25% | LAURENCEOLIVIER | 15 | He played a Nazi in "Marathon Man" and a Nazi hunter in "The Boys From Brazil" [Connecticut] |
| 24% | CABARET | 7 | Bear and cat involved in entertainment |