Owen Brewer didn’t waste any time getting on with 2025.
Mere seconds after midnight to kick off 2025, Owen was born at St. Luke’s Anderson Campus, the first baby of the new year in the eastern Pennsylvania region.
Owen was the first, and his name was also 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 campuses in 2025:
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St. Luke’s Allentown: Girls – Charlotte, Lainey, Gianna and Isabelle and Olivia and Sofia (tied). Boys – Noah, Elijay, Michael and Oliver and Theodore (tied).
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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 23,000+ employees at 16 hospital campuses and 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.
Dedicated to advancing medical education, St. Luke’s is the preeminent teaching hospital in central-eastern 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 60+ fully accredited graduate medical educational programs with 530+ residents and fellows.
In 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recognized St. Luke’s ahead of nationally renowned Mayo Clinic and Houston Methodist as the nation’s three highest performing health systems for quality, safety and patient experience – affirming St. Luke’s status as a leader among the largest and best-known health care providers in the country.
St. Luke’s has been named a Leapfrog Group and Healthgrades Top Hospital and a Newsweek World’s Best Hospital. It is the only Lehigh Valley-based health care system to earn Medicare’s five-star ratings (the highest) for quality, efficiency and patient satisfaction. In 2025, the Network earned straight A’s from Leapfrog across all of its acute care hospitals. It has earned 100 Top Hospital designations from Premier 11 years in a row, including in 2021 when its flagship University Hospital was identified as THE #1 TEACHING HOSPITAL IN THE COUNTRY. Utilizing the Epic electronic medical record (EMR) system for both inpatient and outpatient services, the Network is a multi-year recipient of the Most Wired award recognizing the breadth of SLUHN’s information technology applications such as telehealth, online scheduling and online pricing information.
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Gary Blockus
Gary Blockus


