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Antoine vs Antonietta

American parents have registered 27,652 Antoines since 1880, against 1,260 Antoniettas. Antoine is still ahead, with 95 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Antoine Antonietta

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 138 years and Antonietta for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Antoine Antonietta
Total US births 27,6521,260
Most in one year 84053
Babies in 2025 95under 5
Estimated living today 25,000950
Median age today 3954
Peak year 19851969
Best rank 262nd boys1,648th girls
Rank in 2025 1,708thunranked
First recorded 18821900
Girls / boys 364 / 27,2881,260 / 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 Antoniettas alive today are over 54; half the Antoines are over 39. That is 15 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Antoine Antonietta
France 285,415550
England and Wales 44118

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 Antonietta.