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Antoino vs Antonia

American parents have registered 36,840 Antonias since 1880, against 506 Antoinos. Antonia is still ahead, with 175 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Antoino against Antonia, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Antoino Antonia

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

Antonia 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 1979, when Antoino had 28 and Antonia had 357.

Side by side

  Antoino Antonia
Total US births 50636,840
Most in one year 28678
Babies in 2025 under 5175
Estimated living today 47026,000
Median age today 4240
Peak year 19791996
Best rank 1,903rd boys395th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,279th
First recorded 19581880
Girls / boys 0 / 50634,222 / 2,618

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 Antonias are over 40. That is 2 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 Antonia.