Aaryonn Xzavier Smith is the island’s first ‘Gen Beta’ baby
Baby Aaryon Xzavier Smith with mother Dannielle Joell and father Anthony Smith (Bermuda Hospitals Board, 2025)
Bermuda welcomes the the first birth of 2025, also the island’s first ‘Gen Beta’ baby. The news coming from the Bermuda Hospitals Board. Aaryonn Xzavier Smith was born on New Year’s Day to Dannielle Joell, a nurse aid at the hospital, and Boulevard Blazers centre-back Anthony Smith.
“My due date was actually 17th of January but I have been coming in with pain recently,” says Danielle. “They check me and then release me back home, but yesterday the pain was stronger and when they checked they said it was time,” she recalled.
Father Anthony, focused on the Shield Championship match against Somerset Trojans he was to play in, said he knew Dannielle had come to the hospital but thought it was the usual pains she had been experiencing. The centre-back was on the field by noon in Somerset, and at 1:03pm his son was born. Aaryonn weighed 6lbs 5oz.
“It happened too fast for me to get here for the birth,” he said. “But the whole team was excited. And we won,” he added.
Anthony rode in the traditional winning motorcade to Hamilton with the shield and was dopped off at the hospital to be with Danielle and Aaryonn.
“He is our Boulevard baby,” said his father, “the whole team is behind him.”
BHB CEO & President Scott Pearman noted: “We are delighted that our own Danielle is mom to the first, Generation Beta baby in Bermuda. Babies born this year are the first in a new generation of children that will include all born up to the end of 2039.”
Update courtesy of the Bermuda Hospitals Board
