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Antoinette vs Antonino

American parents have registered 78,789 Antoinettes since 1880, against 2,106 Antoninos. Antoinette is still ahead, with 55 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Antoinette Antonino

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 2024, when Antoinette had 57 and Antonino had 29.

Side by side

  Antoinette Antonino
Total US births 78,7892,106
Most in one year 1,33346
Babies in 2025 5526
Estimated living today 43,0001,800
Median age today 5730
Peak year 19242000
Best rank 173rd girls2,175th boys
Rank in 2025 2,998th4,050th
First recorded 18801912
Girls / boys 78,721 / 680 / 2,106

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 Antoninos are over 30. That is 27 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 Antoinette Antonino
France 72,545815
England and Wales 21055
Belgium 60159

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: Antoinette and Antonino.