Olivia, Noah Lead Pittsburgh's Top Baby Names
West Penn Hospital and Forbes Regional Hospital release the top 10 most popular baby names.
Welcome to the world, all you Olivias, Noahs, Addisons and Declans! The most popular baby names for 2012 at West Penn Allegheny Health System run the gamut of the literary, the Biblical, the distinguished-sounding, the traditional and those that reflect parental creativity. The most popular names among the 3,400 babies born at West Penn Hospital and Forbes Regional Hospital through November 2012 are: Girls: Boys: Today’s parents apparently want their child to stand out in the crowd. West Penn Allegheny parents came up with about 700 different girls’ names and 600 different boys’ names—and many of them had no duplicate. Sometimes, parents created their own name, and often they added a creative spelling to an old name. “A” should be a …
