{"id":27784,"date":"2026-01-15T16:15:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T22:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=27784"},"modified":"2026-01-15T16:22:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T22:22:04","slug":"most-popular-baby-names-in-2025-at-hshs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/27784-most-popular-baby-names-in-2025-at-hshs\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Popular Baby Names In 2025 At HSHS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS) hospitals in Illinois have announced the top names chosen for babies born last year at\u00a0 HSHS St. Anthony\u2019s Memorial in Effingham, HSHS St. John\u2019s in Springfield, and HSHS St. Francis in Litchfield.\u00a0 Over 3,350 babies were delivered at these three central Illinois hospitals in 2025.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HSHS St. Anthony\u2019s Memorial Hospital, Effingham<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Top Boy Name:\u00a0 Oliver<br \/>\nTop Girl Name:\u00a0 Lainey and Wrenley (tied)<\/p>\n<p><strong>HSHS St. John\u2019s Hospital, Springfield<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Top Boy Name:\u00a0\u00a0Oliver<br \/>\nTop Girl Name:\u00a0 Charlotte<\/p>\n<p><strong>HSHS St. Francis Hospital, Litchfield<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Top Boy Names:\u00a0 Waylon<br \/>\nTop Girl Names:\u00a0 Kinsley and Paisley (tied)<\/p>\n<p>Across the Illinois and Wisconsin hospitals within the Hospital Sisters Health System, Oliver and Charlotte were the most popular names chosen among the over 6,200 babies born in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, July was the most common birth month across the system, followed closely by September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS) hospitals in Illinois have announced the top names chosen for babies born last year at\u00a0 HSHS St. Anthony\u2019s Memorial in Effingham, HSHS St. John\u2019s in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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