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MercyOne shares Iowa's most popular baby names of 2023

MercyOne hospitals in Iowa welcomed more than 8,200 births last year.

IOWA, USA — Editor's Note: The video above shows the most popular names for babies at UnityPoint Health Trinity in 2023. 

2023 has come and gone, and according to MercyOne, Iowans welcomed more than 8,200 new babies in their hospitals throughout the year. Just over 2,000 of those births took place at Davenport's Genesis Medical Center.

And all of those new babies need fitting names. According to MercyOne, the most common names for boys born at Genesis were Lincoln and Theodore. On the other hand, the most popular names for girls were Eleanor and Sophia.

But Davenport is just one small slice of Iowa. You can find all of Iowa's most popular baby names and the total number of babies born at each MercyOne facility below.

MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center 

  • Total Births: 3,631
  • Boys: 1,816
  • Girls: 1,815
  • Sets of twins: 92
  • Top boy’s names: Oliver, Liam and Henry
  • Top girl’s names: Eleanor, Harper, Ava and Emma

Genesis Medical Center (Davenport)

  • Total Births: 2,040
  • Sets of twins: 19
  • Top boy’s names: Lincoln and Theodore
  • Top girl’s names: Eleanor and Sophia

MercyOne Northeast Iowa Medical Center

  • Total births – 881
  • Sets of twins and triplets – 19 sets of twins, 1 set of triplets.
  • Top boy names – Theodore/Theo, James, Jack
  • Top girl names - Sophie/Sophia, Raelynn/Raylan, Isabelle/Isabella and Ella, Evelyn

MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center      

  • Total births – 653
  • Sets of twins and triplets – 17 sets of twins
  • Top boy names: Theodore, Owen, Liam and Mateo
  • Top girl names: Adeline, Mia, Sophia, Charlotte, Emma and Aurora

MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center

  • Total Births: 653
  • Sets of twins: 4
  • Top boy names: Leo and Nolan
  • Top girl names: Ava and Charlotte

MercyOne Clinton Medical Center

  • Total number of births - 249
  • Top boy’s name: Emmett
  • Top girl’s name: Emma

MercyOne Newton Medical Center

  • Total births – 110
  • Sets of twins - 2 sets of twins
  • Top boy names: Sawyer and Asher
  • Top girl names: Lainee/Lainey

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