| 100% | AARON | 5 | First name in a Biblical Who's Who |
| 69% | BABA | 4 | First name in a Who song title |
| 63% | BILBO | 5 | First name of a fantasy character who lives in Bag End |
| 61% | EBENEZER | 8 | Scrooge's first name in A Christmas Carol |
| 59% | WEST | 4 | First word in a U.S. state name |
| 58% | NOAH | 4 | First name in a dictionary |
| 58% | DREWBARRYMORE | 13 | "50 First Dates" actress who played a private investigator named Dylan in "Charlie's Angels": 2 wds. |
| 57% | ANNABEL | 7 | First name in a Poe poem |
| 57% | ROBINSON | 8 | First name in a Defoe book |
| 57% | URIAH | 5 | First name in a Dickens classic |
| 57% | MOLL | 4 | First name in a Defoe title |
| 57% | MALIA | 5 | First name in a 2010s first family |
| 57% | ICHABOD | 7 | First name in a Washington Irving story |
| 57% | DRED | 4 | First name in a noted 1857 decision |
| 57% | HEIR | 4 | Person who's named in a will |
| 56% | EBENEZER | 8 | First name in “The Man Who Invented Christmas” |
| 56% | MARC | 4 | First name that's a verb in reverse |
| 56% | TOM | 3 | First name in a 1973 David Bowie hit |
| 56% | LIAM | 4 | First name of the actor who did a cameo as the voice of Qui-Gon in "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" |
| 55% | NANCYDREW | 9 | Fictional young female detective who first appeared in a 1930 book credited to the pen name Carolyn Keene: 2 wds. |
| 55% | LAILA | 5 | First name of Muhammad Ali's daughter, who was also a boxer |
| 55% | HARDYBOYS | 9 | Fictional young male detectives who first appeared in a 1927 book credited to the pen name Franklin W Dixon: 2 wds. |
| 54% | GRETA | 5 | A first name in film annals |
| 54% | NEIL | 4 | First name in NASA's prestigious list of astronauts who have been to the moon |
| 54% | OREL | 4 | Hershiser who pitched a record 59 consecutive scoreless innings (and whose first name is aptly found in "scoreless") |
| 53% | BOBBSEYTWINS | 12 | Fictional young brother-and-sister detectives who first appeared in a 1904 book credited to the pen name Laura Lee Hope: 2 wds. |
| 53% | EDEN | 4 | "The Middle" actress Sher whose first name is a biblical place |
| 52% | ANSEL | 5 | First name in the name of a Yosemite peak |
| 52% | KEKE | 4 | First name of actress Palmer who starred in Nope |
| 52% | PRODIGAL | 8 | Son who returned in a Biblical parable |