Essentia Health announces top baby names for 2025   

Entering the final week of the year, almost 4,000 babies were born at Essentia Health hospitals. That includes 1,685 at St. Mary's Medical Center in Duluth;1,255 at Essentia Health-Fargo; 452 at Essentia Health St. Mary’s-Detroit Lakes; 371 at Essentia Health-St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Brainerd; and 171 at Essentia Health-Virginia.

Of those beautiful babies, here are the most popular boy and girl names for each hospital.

ST. MARY’S MEDICAL CENTER

Top baby boy names

Theodore or Theo and Oliver — 12

Rowan — 10

James — 9

Top baby girl names

Evelyn or Evelynn — 14

Harper — 10

Lucy, Nora and Hazel — 8

ESSENTIA HEALTH-FARGO

Top baby boy names

Theodor or Theodore — 11

Everett, Henry, Hudson, Otto — 6

Bennett, Elijah, Rowan — 5

Top baby girl names

Charlotte — 9

Amelia, Adaline or Adalne or Addilyn or Adeline or Adelyn or Adelynn — 7

Haley or Halle or Hallie, Paislee or Paisley or Paizlei — 6

ST. MARY’S-DETROIT LAKES

Top baby boy names

Hudson — 5

Miles or Myles — 4

Top baby girl names

Adalyn or Adalynn or Adeline — 5

Sofia or Sophia — 4

ST. JOSEPH’S MEDICAL CENTER

Top baby boy names

Oliver — 6

Thomas and Beau — 4

Walker, Hudson, Theodore and Henry — 3

Top baby girl names

Sophia — 3

Emma, Ella, Ava, Nova, Violet, Charlotte, Annika, Haisley, Riler, Harper and Allie — 2

ESSENTIA HEALTH-VIRGINIA

Top baby boy names

Asher and Oliver — 3

Ryder and Jaxson — 2

Top baby girl names

Elliana, Sadie and Ida — 2