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Antoin vs Antonio

American parents have registered 264,970 Antonios since 1880, against 532 Antoins. Antonio is still ahead, with 2,058 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Antoin 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 1972, when Antoin had 26 and Antonio had 3,065.

Side by side

  Antoin Antonio
Total US births 532264,970
Most in one year 265,089
Babies in 2025 under 52,058
Estimated living today 490229,000
Median age today 4232
Peak year 19721997
Best rank 1,721st boys75th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked176th
First recorded 19621880
Girls / boys 0 / 5321,975 / 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 Antoins alive today are over 42; half the Antonios are over 32. That is 10 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 Antonio
Ireland 20246
Northern Ireland 4633

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 Antonio.