{"id":146839,"date":"2025-12-23T21:25:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T02:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=146839"},"modified":"2025-12-23T21:25:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T02:25:55","slug":"st-lukes-top-baby-names-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=146839","title":{"rendered":"St. Luke\u2019s Top Baby Names of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Owen Brewer\u00a0didn\u2019t\u00a0waste any time getting on with 2025.<\/div>\n<div>Mere seconds after midnight to kick off 2025, Owen was born at St. Luke\u2019s Anderson Campus, the first baby of the new year in the eastern Pennsylvania region.<\/div>\n<div>Owen was the first, and his name was also one of the most popular names for male babies born at St. Luke\u2019s Anderson Campus for 2025.<\/div>\n<div>These are the top three (or more) names at St. Luke&#8217;s campuses in 2025:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><u><a id=\"m_6135555139950673916OWA52614a6d-e9df-d941-05c2-4aca51d5a8e0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slhn.org\/locations\/stlukes-hospital-allentown-campus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.slhn.org\/locations\/stlukes-hospital-allentown-campus&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1766626814676000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1Q5R_YTfm63vXCEeq7yOyt\">St. Luke\u2019s Allentown<\/a><\/u>: Girls \u2013 Charlotte, Lainey, Gianna and Isabelle and Olivia and Sofia (tied).\u00a0Boys \u2013 Noah, Elijay, Michael and Oliver and Theodore (tied).<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><u><a id=\"m_6135555139950673916OWAc751c249-1bd2-4b8d-5862-7b7fd8811be9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slhn.org\/locations\/stlukes-hospital-anderson-campus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.slhn.org\/locations\/stlukes-hospital-anderson-campus&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1766626814676000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0Y2H_VJ3plac3dlkaggPUu\">St. Luke\u2019s Anderson<\/a><\/u>: Girls \u2013 Sophia, Olivia, Charlotte, Amelia and Zoe (tied). Boys \u2013 Noah\/Noa, Owen, Oliver, Carter and Lucas\/Luke (tied).<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>The most popular baby names given to newborns at St. Luke\u2019s University Health Network in 2024 for girls were Olivia, Mia, Sophia\/Sofia\u00a0and Charlotte, while the most popular boys names in 2024 were Liam, Noah, Lucas\/Luke\u00a0and Henry. Isabella and Liam were the top names in 2023.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><b>About St. Luke\u2019s\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n<div>Founded in 1872, St. Luke\u2019s University Health Network (SLUHN) is a fully integrated, regional, non-profit network with annual net revenue of more than\u00a0$4.5 billion. With 23,000+ employees at 16 hospital campuses and 350+ outpatient sites, it is\u00a0the Lehigh\u00a0Valley\u2019s biggest employer.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Network\u2019s 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\u2019s hospitals\u00a0operate\u00a0the largest network of trauma centers in Pennsylvania, with the Bethlehem Campus being home to St. Luke\u2019s Children\u2019s Hospital.<\/div>\n<div>Dedicated to advancing medical education, St. Luke\u2019s is the preeminent teaching hospital in central-eastern Pennsylvania. In partnership with Temple University, the Network\u00a0established\u00a0the Lehigh\u00a0Valley\u2019s first and only four-year medical school. It also\u00a0operates\u00a0the nation\u2019s oldest continuously operated School of Nursing,\u00a0established\u00a0in 1884, and 60+ fully accredited graduate medical educational programs with 530+ residents and fellows.<\/div>\n<div>In 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recognized St. Luke\u2019s ahead of nationally renowned Mayo Clinic and Houston Methodist as the nation\u2019s three highest performing health systems for quality,\u00a0safety\u00a0and patient experience \u2013 affirming St. Luke\u2019s status as a leader among the largest and best-known health care providers in the country.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>St. Luke\u2019s has been named a Leapfrog Group and Healthgrades Top Hospital and a Newsweek World\u2019s Best Hospital. It is the only Lehigh Valley-based health care system to earn Medicare\u2019s five-star ratings (the highest) for quality,\u00a0efficiency\u00a0and patient satisfaction. In 2025, the Network earned straight\u00a0A\u2019s\u00a0from Leapfrog across\u00a0all of\u00a0its 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\u2019s information technology applications such as telehealth, online\u00a0scheduling\u00a0and online pricing information.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nGary Blockus<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owen Brewer\u00a0didn\u2019t\u00a0waste any time getting on with 2025. Mere seconds after midnight to kick off 2025, Owen was born at St. Luke\u2019s Anderson Campus, the first baby of the new &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=146839\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">St. Luke\u2019s Top Baby Names of 2025<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/sluhn-medical-advice.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/126321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}