Antoine vs Antonetta
American parents have registered 27,652 Antoines since 1880, against 1,435 Antonettas. Antoine is still ahead, with 95 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Antoine Antonetta
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
Of the 139 years in which either name was published, Antoine for 113 years and Antonetta for 26 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.
- 1882–1908 Antoine ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1912–1931 Antonetta ahead
- 1934–2025 Antoine ahead, apart from one short spell
8 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Antoine | Antonetta | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 27,652 | 1,435 |
| Most in one year | 840 | 60 |
| Babies in 2025 | 95 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 25,000 | 330 |
| Median age today | 39 | 64 |
| Peak year | 1985 | 1915 |
| Best rank | 262nd boys | 839th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 1,708th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1882 | 1891 |
| Girls / boys | 364 / 27,288 | 1,435 / 0 |
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 Antonettas alive today are over 64; half the Antoines are over 39. That is 25 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Antoine the District of Columbia (7.3×), Maryland (3.8×), Louisiana (3.6×)
- Antonetta Rhode Island (109.4×), Massachusetts (17.5×), New York (1.4×)
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: Antoine and Antonetta.