As it mentions there, “Fairview” and “Midway” are even more common, but I guess there’s more of a meme about “Springfield” being very common (sometimes inaccurately said that there’s one in every state)
Springfield has much higher saliency even if it’s less common. The capital of Illinois is Springfield, there’s a city of 140k in Missouri called Springfield, etc.
If memory serves, they chose that name in the Simpsons because it’s an oddly common name, with a small town by that name in 30+ different states.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield_(toponym)
As it mentions there, “Fairview” and “Midway” are even more common, but I guess there’s more of a meme about “Springfield” being very common (sometimes inaccurately said that there’s one in every state)
Springfield has much higher saliency even if it’s less common. The capital of Illinois is Springfield, there’s a city of 140k in Missouri called Springfield, etc.