Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital has announced their top baby names of 2021, describing the winners as sharing “an affinity with old school regal names.”
Step right up, Eleanor and Leo.You’ve joined the big leagues now.The two names claimed spots on the top 10 lists of baby names at the Family Birthplace and Natural Birthing Suites at Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital for 2020.Eleanor scooted her way to No. 7 for girls, and Leo crawled to a ninth-place tie for boys.Nationally, both names have followed a steady trajectory upward in popularity in recent years, according to the Social Security Administration, which keeps records dating to
Step right up, Eleanor and Leo. You’ve joined the big leagues now. The two names claimed spots on the top 10 lists of baby names at the Family Birthplace and Natural Birthing Suites at Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital for 2020.
Spectrum Health Beat told us that Eleanor scooted her way to No. 7 for girls, and Leo crawled to a ninth-place tie for boys. Since I have a grandson named Leo, I m a bit thrilled that he s so popular. okay, his name, anyway!
Nationally, both names have followed a steady trajectory upward in popularity in recent years, according to the Social Security Administration, which keeps records dating to 1900.
Top baby names in 2020 include old-fashioned classics
Updated Dec 29, 2020;
Posted Dec 29, 2020
Christine Stevens cradles her newborn daughter, Eleanor Rose Stevens. Matt and Christine Stevens wanted their daughter to have a traditional name. Chris Clark | Spectrum Health Beat
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During the dumpster fire that was 2020, many new parents looked to the past for baby names.
Old-timey names Eleanor and Leo made Spectrum Health’s lists of top 10 baby names of 2020, according to a news release from Spectrum Health Beat. Eleanor came in at No. 7 on the girls’ list while Leo tied at No. 9 for boys.
The last time Eleanor was in the top 10 nationally was 1918 – the year of the Spanish flu pandemic. More than 100 years a later, Eleanor is surging amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Leo has never made the national top 10 – its previous peak was No. 28 in 1903.