Ditto.
How about my hometown #249 Erie PA? Anyone not heard of us?
Add me to the rapidly growing “never heard of Santa Ana, CA” crowd: I certainly couldn’t have told you there was a city named Santa Ana in California.
After that, #76, Chandler, AZ (and I’m hardly the only one who’d never heard of that town, either!), #94 Gilbert, AZ, and #117 Moreno Valley, CA. All three of these are high on the list due to fairly recent rapid growth. I bet they all have gotten clobbered by the demise of the housing bubble of the past decade.
As a onetime baseball fan, I knew about Mesa, CA and Arlington, TX because the former is a spring training site (Cubbies), and the latter is where the Washington Senators v. 2.0 moved to, and became the Texas Rangers.
My favorite city name on the list is Rancho Cucamonga, CA.
#42, Virginia Beach, VA
Home to the Hampton Roads Piranhas football club, and with an international sister-city of Moss, Norway, how could I have not heard of it :dubious:
for me it was Chula Vista, CA. #89, pop 219,318
Regarding Chandler, Mesa, Glendale, Scottsdale, and Tempe - these are all reasonable sized cities in their own right, but anyone who lives in “The Valley of the Sun” just considers them suburbs of Phoenix. I mean, if you ask, people could probably tell you that they have their own Mayors, etc., but when you live out here, all the borders sort of blend into one huge anonymous stretch of suburbia, with little to distinguish one city from the other.
Just like LA (ugh).
#42, Virginia Beach, VA. The most populous city in Virginia, and I’d never heard of it!
This for me, too.
What shocked me was how small Miami is! I would have guessed it was bigger than Columbus (which is where I live) but it’s not even close. Virginia Beach is bigger than Miami? Who knew.
Wow, I had no idea Detroit was that big. For the OP though, it’s #50, Arlington. Perhaps I’ve heard of it before, but in my mind I only associate Arlington with VA. After Arlington, Lexington, KY. Definitely find it embarrassing that Pittsburgh’s smaller than Bakersfield.
That’s what I was going to say. At least 3 or 4 cities mentioned in Texas are Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex cities. Arlington (between D & FW), Grand Prairie (between D & FW, S of Arlington) and Garland (NE of Dallas) are all immediately adjacent to Dallas and/or Fort Worth.
Other similarly sized cities in the area are Plano, Richardson, Mesquite, Frisco and Irving.
Generally speaking, if you were to ask citizens of these towns where they’re from, they’d probably say “Dallas” or “the Dallas area” if they weren’t in the area when being asked, and reply with their actual city if they were in the area.
For an idea of how integrated into the area these cities are, the Texas Rangers and Dallas Cowboys both actually play in Arlington now, and the Cowboys used to play in Irving. Six Flags over Texas is in Arlington (the original Six Flags park) also.
I got to El Paseo, and thought I should count it. While I’ve heard jokes about HellPasso I had *no *idea it was any bigger than a one-horse town. But I should go with #42 Virginia Beach, VA and then #58 Aurora, CO.
Virginia Beach - I don’t think I have ever run across its name before.
Same.
Peoria, Arizona made me go back and re-check names higher on the list to make sure that I wasn’t thinking of a different city. A lot of co-opted names.
This one… although I would never have heard of Fresno if not for its college football team.
Next up are Aurora, CO; Stockton, CA; Chandler, AZ and Gilbert, AZ.
Fun trivia question: what’s the largest city in the US by land area?
Yep. This is where I tap out too. And from the other comments evidently Maricopa County is full of large cities no one has heard of.
I got stumped at #95, Hialeah, Florida. The next one I didn’t know was McAllen, Texas at #185, then a few odds and ends out of the rest. Probably 8 or 9 I don’t know total.
You still haven’t. The Fort Wayne on the list is in Indiana, about 30 miles west of me. 
On the other list, I made it to #70, McAllen, Texas. That doesn’t seem fair somehow, it should be folded into some urban area I have heard of. 
The incorporated part is small. Miami proper is big - three or four of the cities on the list (like Hialeah) are really part of Miami.
I’ve actually been to Aurora, Colorado-- it’s home to Buckley Air Force Base, where they “fly” DSP satellites.
Arlington, TX… Glendale, AZ… not a lot of sports fans on this page, eh?
Anyway, I made it down to # 137… Overland Park, KS? Who knew?
Where’s this “New” York they mention?
I made it to Gilbert, AZ. I guessed what metroplex it was part of, but I’d never heard the name before.
Wow, more people live in and around Arizona than I ever possibly imagined. I always thought living in a place with a summer temperature of over 100 degrees every day would be a negative, but apparently there’s lots of air conditioning and its a happening place. There must be a lot of jobs available there.