Sponsored Sponsored content St. Luke’s Most Popular Baby Names in 2025 include ‘Owen,’ ‘Gianna’

Owen Brewer didn’t waste any time getting on with 2025. 

Mere seconds after midnight and the start of the new year, Owen was born at St. Luke’s Anderson Campus in Bethlehem Township; the first baby of the new year in the eastern Pennsylvania region. 

Owen was the first, and his name also turned out to be one of the most popular names for male babies born at St. Luke’s Anderson Campus for 2025.

These are the top three (or more) names at St. Luke’s Allentown and Anderson campuses in 2025: 

• St. Luke’s Allentown: Girls – Charlotte, Lainey, Gianna and Isabelle and Olivia and Sofia (tied). Boys – Noah, Elijay, Michael and Oliver and Theodore (tied). 
• St. Luke’s Anderson: Girls – Sophia, Olivia, Charlotte, Amelia and Zoe (tied). Boys – Noah/Noa, Owen, Oliver, Carter and Lucas/Luke (tied).

The most popular baby names given to newborns at St. Luke’s University Health Network in 2024 for girls were Olivia, Mia, Sophia/Sofia and Charlotte, while the most popular boys names in 2024 were Liam, Noah, Lucas/Luke and Henry. Isabella and Liam were the top names in 2023.

About St. Luke’s 

Founded in 1872, St. Luke’s University Health Network (SLUHN) is a fully-integrated, regional, non-profit network with annual net revenue of more than $4.5 billion. With more than 23,000 employees at 16 hospital campuses and over 350 outpatient sites, it is the Lehigh Valley’s biggest employer. The Network’s service area includes 11 counties in two states: Lehigh, Northampton, Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Montgomery, Monroe, Schuylkill and Luzerne counties in Pennsylvania and Warren and Hunterdon counties in New Jersey. St. Luke’s hospitals operate the largest network of trauma centers in Pennsylvania, with the Bethlehem Campus being home to St. Luke’s Children’s Hospital. St. Luke’s is also the preeminent teaching hospital in east central Pennsylvania. In partnership with Temple University, the Network established the Lehigh Valley’s first and only four-year medical school. It also operates the nation’s oldest continuously operated School of Nursing, established in 1884, and over 60 fully-accredited graduate medical educational programs with more than 530 residents and fellows. 

This community health news is brought to you in partnership with St. Luke’s University Health Network.