WASHINGTON — One of the first babies born in the D.C. area in 2017 was a baby girl who arrived shortly after the ball dropped in New York City’s Times Square.
At 12:15 a.m. Sunday, a Rockville, Maryland family celebrated the birth of their new baby daughter, who weighed 6 pounds and 13 ounces.
She was born at Adventist Healthcare Shady Grove Medical Center. The hospital said both mom and daughter are doing well.
Then at 12:48 a.m., the stork made a special delivery to Johns Hopkins University Hospital, where a baby boy came into the world weighing 6 pounds and 4 ounces.
While we don’t know the babies’ names, we do know the popular baby name predictions for 2017.
According to Pop Sugar.com, Addison, Aubrey, Cora, Eleanor and Elsie were some of the popular names for girls. Some of the top boy names were Arlo, Brooks, Ford, Harley and Henry, according to the website’s rankings.
