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Antoinette vs Antoino

American parents have registered 78,789 Antoinettes since 1880, against 506 Antoinos. Antoinette is still ahead, with 55 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Antoinette against Antoino, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Antoinette Antoino

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

Antoinette 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 2013, when Antoinette had 73 and Antoino had 5.

Side by side

  Antoinette Antoino
Total US births 78,789506
Most in one year 1,33328
Babies in 2025 55under 5
Estimated living today 43,000470
Median age today 5742
Peak year 19241979
Best rank 173rd girls1,903rd boys
Rank in 2025 2,998thunranked
First recorded 18801958
Girls / boys 78,721 / 680 / 506

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 Antoinettes alive today are over 57; half the Antoinos are over 42. That is 15 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Antoinette and Antoino.