| 100% | AXELS | 5 | Jumps named after skater Paulsen now commonplace, but as of last year only 11 women had completed triple versions in competition |
| 20% | NAOMI | 5 | ___ Smalls, named last year as one of New York magazine's top 100 Most Powerful Drag Queens in America |
| 20% | BLUESTATE | 9 | Georgia, as of last year |
| 20% | MARCH | 5 | Last name of the sisters in Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women" |
| 19% | AXEL | 4 | Jump named for skater Paulsen |
| 19% | SOSA | 4 | Last name of the only player in MLB history with three 60-homer seasons |
| 19% | LUTZ | 4 | Alois —, Austrian figure skater after whom a type of jump is named |
| 19% | FDR | 3 | Initials of the president who had the same last name as Teddy |
| 19% | ONO | 3 | Last name of the woman in the Beatles song "The Ballad of John and Yoko" |
| 19% | POD | 3 | Group of people who have contact only with each other, as in 2020 |
| 19% | BOLT | 4 | Notable name in speedy circles who as of May 17, 2020, now has a daughter to tag along behind him |
| 19% | RUBEGO/IDLDBERG | 15 | Only person whose first and last name together is listed as an adjective in Merriam-Webster |
| 19% | IRENE | 5 | Name of five hurricanes, the last of which was in 2011, after which the name was retired |
| 18% | ASHE | 4 | Arthur, the king of tennis after whom the stadium in New York has been named |
| 18% | MRPIBB | 6 | Original name of a soft drink that now has "Xtra" in its name: 2 wds. |
| 18% | CSI | 3 | One of the 11 4-year senior schools in the City University of New York system that has Danny the Dolphin as its mascot |
| 18% | CHINA | 5 | Country that has emitted over 230,000 megatons of carbon dioxide in the last 270 years |
| 18% | BONE | 4 | Former name, under French rule, of the city and port in Algeria known now as Annaba |
| 18% | BUSH | 4 | Last name of former First Daughters Jenna and Barbara, who now live four blocks apart in New York City |
| 18% | USA | 3 | Country that has emitted over 400,000 megatons of carbon dioxide in the last 270 years: Abbr. |
| 18% | CENTIPEDE | 9 | Arthropod named as it was thought to have a 100 legs but in fact has a varying number |
| 18% | PITTSBURGH | 10 | City that had the final letter of its name removed in 1891, only to be restored in 1911 |
| 18% | ALA | 3 | State, in short, which had as its first permanent capital the community of Cahaba, now a ghost town |
| 18% | FEDCUP | 6 | Former name of the international women's tennis team competition renmaed in 2020 in honour of Billie Jean King |
| 18% | MIRREN | 6 | Only person to have won the Triple Crown of Acting in both the U.S. and the U.K. |
| 18% | NIPA | 4 | ___ grass, colloquial name of Distichlis palmeri, once thought extinct but which now grows in the Sonoran desert of Mexico |
| 18% | PILL | 4 | Better known name of Tyrone Rivers, Atlanta rapper who released "Back Right" in 2018 after a 6 year hiatus |
| 17% | TRIPLEJUMP | 10 | Field event included in the first modern Olympics in 1896, although women were only allowed to start competing 100 years later |
| 17% | MARYAM | 6 | Only woman named in the Quran |
| 17% | PTL | 3 | Name of the cable network sold in bankruptcy (1989) to Morris Cerullo World Evangelism that is now known as "INSP", HQed in South Carolina |