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Anthonie vs Antoine

American parents have registered 27,652 Antoines since 1880, against 777 Anthonies. Antoine is still ahead, with 95 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Anthonie against Antoine, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Anthonie Antoine

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

Antoine has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1882 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2014, when Anthonie had 21 and Antoine had 194.

Side by side

  Anthonie Antoine
Total US births 77727,652
Most in one year 34840
Babies in 2025 under 595
Estimated living today 76025,000
Median age today 2339
Peak year 20001985
Best rank 2,674th boys262nd boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,708th
First recorded 19721882
Girls / boys 0 / 777364 / 27,288

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 Antoines alive today are over 39; half the Anthonies are over 23. That is 16 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Anthonie Antoine
France 5285,415
England and Wales 4441

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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