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Anthany vs Antonio

American parents have registered 264,970 Antonios since 1880, against 537 Anthanys. Antonio is still ahead, with 2,058 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Anthany against Antonio, 1880 to 2025 0 1.5k 3k 4.5k 6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Anthany Antonio

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Antonio has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1913, when Anthany had 5 and Antonio had 309.

Side by side

  Anthany Antonio
Total US births 537264,970
Most in one year 235,089
Babies in 2025 under 52,058
Estimated living today 480229,000
Median age today 2732
Peak year 20061997
Best rank 4,105th boys75th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked176th
First recorded 19131880
Girls / boys 0 / 5371,975 / 262,995

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Antonios alive today are over 32; half the Anthanys are over 27. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Anthany and Antonio.