Got an Olivia or a Noah? They're Top Picks for Pittsburgh’s Baby Names in 2012
West Penn Allegheny Health System reveals the most popular names for this year’s crop of babies.
Oh, baby! West Penn Allegheny Health System has revealed the most popular names chosen for the 3,400 babies born at West Penn Hospital and Forbes Regional Hospital through November 2012. This year’s top monikers run the gamut of the literary, the Biblical, the distinguished-sounding, the traditional and those that reflect parental creativity. For girls, the No. 1 name on everyone's lips was Olivia. The top name for boys was Noah. West Penn Allegheny parents came up with about 700 different girls’ names and 600 different boys’ names. Many of them had no duplicate, according to the hospital. Sometimes, parents created their own name. Often they added a creative spelling or flourish to an old name, the hospital said. “A” is expected be a …
