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Anthony vs Antoino

American parents have registered 1,495,156 Anthonys since 1880, against 506 Antoinos. Anthony is still ahead, with 5,977 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Anthony against Antoino, 1880 to 2025 0 8k 16k 24k 32k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Anthony Antoino

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

Anthony 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 1979, when Anthony had 17,667 and Antoino had 28.

Side by side

  Anthony Antoino
Total US births 1,495,156506
Most in one year 25,18828
Babies in 2025 5,977under 5
Estimated living today 1.2 million470
Median age today 3842
Peak year 19901979
Best rank 15th boys1,903rd boys
Rank in 2025 46thunranked
First recorded 18801958
Girls / boys 7,114 / 1,488,0420 / 506

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 Antoinos alive today are over 42; half the Anthonys are over 38. That is 4 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: Anthony and Antoino.