HSHS St. Nicholas Hospital
A major challenge for new parents is picking the name their child will bear for life. At St. Nicholas Hospital in Sheboygan, they’ve tallied the most popular names given in 2022, and for boys the honor is a tie between Oliver and Noah. That’s very familiar territory for Oliver, a name that’s been number one or tied since 2018 according to our records. For Girls, the most frequently given name was also a tie, between Rylee and, again, Olivia, a name that was number-1 last year.
Hospital Sisters Health System, which operates St. Nicholas, also runs St. Vincent in Green Bay, but those top names were different. Up north, for boys the most popular names in 2022 were Noah and Henry in a tie, while for Girls the honor goes to Charlotte.
National trends are followed by the Social Security Administration, and over the past 100 years the most popular name for boys was James, while the most frequent name bestowed upon girls was Mary.
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