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Antjuan vs Antonia

American parents have registered 36,840 Antonias since 1880, against 852 Antjuans. Antonia is still ahead, with 175 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Antjuan against Antonia, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Antjuan Antonia

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

Antonia 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 1990, when Antjuan had 35 and Antonia had 372.

Side by side

  Antjuan Antonia
Total US births 85236,840
Most in one year 35678
Babies in 2025 under 5175
Estimated living today 81026,000
Median age today 3540
Peak year 19901996
Best rank 2,086th boys395th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,279th
First recorded 19691880
Girls / boys 0 / 85234,222 / 2,618

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 Antonias alive today are over 40; half the Antjuans are over 35. That is 5 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.

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