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Antonella vs Antonio

American parents have registered 264,970 Antonios since 1880, against 10,576 Antonellas. Antonio is still ahead, with 2,058 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Antonella against Antonio, 1880 to 2025 0 1.5k 3k 4.5k 6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Antonella Antonio

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

Antonio 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 Antonella had 1,333 and Antonio had 2,058.

Side by side

  Antonella Antonio
Total US births 10,576264,970
Most in one year 1,3335,089
Babies in 2025 1,0872,058
Estimated living today 10,000229,000
Median age today 532
Peak year 20241997
Best rank 233rd girls75th boys
Rank in 2025 284th176th
First recorded 19541880
Girls / boys 10,571 / 51,975 / 262,995

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 Antonios alive today are over 32; half the Antonellas are over 5. 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 Antonella Antonio
Italy 9,85894,339
Spain 63540,900
France 1,44520,885
England and Wales 2952,684
Switzerland 113934
Belgium 74708
Poland 15669
Ireland 44246

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: Antonella and Antonio.