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Antoinette vs Antron

American parents have registered 78,789 Antoinettes since 1880, against 1,264 Antrons. Antoinette is still ahead, with 55 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Antoinette Antron

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 2012, when Antoinette had 83 and Antron had 19.

Side by side

  Antoinette Antron
Total US births 78,7891,264
Most in one year 1,33367
Babies in 2025 555
Estimated living today 43,0001,200
Median age today 5739
Peak year 19241980
Best rank 173rd girls1,103rd boys
Rank in 2025 2,998th12,008th
First recorded 18801962
Girls / boys 78,721 / 680 / 1,264

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 Antrons are over 39. That is 18 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.

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