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Antoin vs Antonia

American parents have registered 36,840 Antonias since 1880, against 532 Antoins. Antonia is still ahead, with 175 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Antoin 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 1972, when Antoin had 26 and Antonia had 370.

Side by side

  Antoin Antonia
Total US births 53236,840
Most in one year 26678
Babies in 2025 under 5175
Estimated living today 49026,000
Median age today 4240
Peak year 19721996
Best rank 1,721st boys395th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,279th
First recorded 19621880
Girls / boys 0 / 53234,222 / 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 Antoins alive today are over 42; half the Antonias are over 40. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Antoin Antonia
Ireland 20424
Northern Ireland 4673

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: Antoin and Antonia.