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Antoine vs Antonia

American parents have registered 36,840 Antonias since 1880, against 27,652 Antoines. Antonia is still ahead, with 175 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Antoine against Antonia, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Antoine 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

Of the 146 years in which either name was published, Antonia for 113 years and Antoine for 33 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Antoine Antonia
Total US births 27,65236,840
Most in one year 840678
Babies in 2025 95175
Estimated living today 25,00026,000
Median age today 3940
Peak year 19851996
Best rank 262nd boys395th girls
Rank in 2025 1,708th1,279th
First recorded 18821880
Girls / boys 364 / 27,28834,222 / 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.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

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

Country Antoine Antonia
France 285,41510,450
Belgium 7,270393
England and Wales 4414,710
Switzerland 1,250707
Poland 1291,698
Scotland 3576
Ireland 10424

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: Antoine and Antonia.