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Antonia vs Antonios

American parents have registered 36,840 Antonias since 1880, against 867 Antonioses. Antonia is still ahead, with 175 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Antonia Antonios

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 2009, when Antonia had 205 and Antonios had 17.

Side by side

  Antonia Antonios
Total US births 36,840867
Most in one year 67828
Babies in 2025 17511
Estimated living today 26,000820
Median age today 4032
Peak year 19961990
Best rank 395th girls2,432nd boys
Rank in 2025 1,279th7,194th
First recorded 18801954
Girls / boys 34,222 / 2,6180 / 867

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 Antonias alive today are over 40; half the Antonioses are over 32. That is 8 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 Antonia Antonios
France 10,4505
England and Wales 4,71070
Switzerland 70714

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: Antonia and Antonios.