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Antoino vs Anton

American parents have registered 23,936 Antons since 1880, against 506 Antoinos. Anton is still ahead, with 132 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Antoino against Anton, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Antoino Anton

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

Anton 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 1976, when Antoino had 22 and Anton had 189.

Side by side

  Antoino Anton
Total US births 50623,936
Most in one year 28357
Babies in 2025 under 5132
Estimated living today 47015,000
Median age today 4234
Peak year 19791915
Best rank 1,903rd boys252nd boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,388th
First recorded 19581880
Girls / boys 0 / 50621 / 23,915

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 Antoinos alive today are over 42; half the Antons are over 34. That is 8 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: Antoino and Anton.