America’s most PLASTIC states revealed: Delaware, Rhode Island and Maryland make up surprising top three places for cosmetic surgery searches. Where does YOURS rank?

The states most interested in getting plastic surgery have been revealed.

Delaware, Rhode Island and Maryland are the three states with the most Google searches for cosmetic procedures, according to experts at med.ro — an online directory to help people find medical professionals like dermatologists and plastic surgeons.

They analyzed the number of average monthly Google searches in each state using terms like ‘BBL near me’, ‘buccal fat removal price’ and ‘eyelid lift surgeon’. 

They also found that the Brazilian butt lift (BBL) is America’s most popular cosmetic surgery, with an average of more than 261,000 monthly Google searches.

Delaware took the crown for the state most interested in plastic surgery, with 308 cosmetic surgery-related searches for every 100,000 people monthly.

Rhode Island was next on the list, with the state making an average of 301 cosmetic surgery searches monthly for every 100,000 people.

In third place was Maryland – with 299 Google searches per every 100,000 made for cosmetic surgery monthly.

The fourth most-interested state was Virginia racking up 289 Google searches a month for every 100,000 residents, followed by Georgia in fifth place with 287 monthly searches per 100,000 residents.

Delaware has the ninth higher GDP per capita of the 50 states, according to data from April 2023 from the World Population Review, making it one of the top ten richest.

Maryland has the second-highest income of any state, according to data from January 2023, with a median household income of more than $87,000.

Virginia also has a high median household income of more than $76,000. 

The inhabitants of these states will enjoy more disposable income to spend on cosmetic procedures, which can cost thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars in the US for one operation.

The BBL is the most Googled procedure in all 50 states. It gives an enhanced figure as surgeons create curves by removing fat from other areas of the body, like the stomach, and moving it to the butt.

Celebrities such as Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian are rumored to have had the operation.

Tummy tucks and hair transplants were just behind BBLs in terms of popularity.

Tummy tucks, also known as abdominoplasty, has 175,757 average monthly Google searches. 

The operation involves removing excess skin and fat from the abdomen to enhance the look of the stomach and make it appear firmer and smoother.

Hair transplants had more than 120,000 monthly Google searches. Roughly two-thirds of men in the US experience hair loss by age 35, though the procedure is growing in popularity among women too.

Experts at med.ro combined a list of cosmetic surgeries with multiple terms to discover their total monthly search volume on Google: X price, X near me, X surgery, X surgeon, X cost, How much is X.

The search volume of these terms in each state was discovered and then calculated by the population to ensure the ranking was fair.

The search volume for each term was combined for each procedure to determine which are the most popular and which states are the most interested.

The data was collected between June 2022 and June 2023.