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Antonia vs Antonyo

American parents have registered 36,840 Antonias since 1880, against 684 Antonyos. Antonia is still ahead, with 175 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Antonia Antonyo

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 2010, when Antonia had 208 and Antonyo had 20.

Side by side

  Antonia Antonyo
Total US births 36,840684
Most in one year 67824
Babies in 2025 175under 5
Estimated living today 26,000660
Median age today 4029
Peak year 19961986
Best rank 395th girls2,290th boys
Rank in 2025 1,279thunranked
First recorded 18801962
Girls / boys 34,222 / 2,6180 / 684

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 Antonyos are over 29. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Antonia Antonyo
France 10,45045

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 Antonyo.