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 , 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.
