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Antonia vs Antuan

American parents have registered 36,840 Antonias since 1880, against 1,407 Antuans. Antonia is still ahead, with 175 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Antonia Antuan

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 1989, when Antonia had 348 and Antuan had 45.

Side by side

  Antonia Antuan
Total US births 36,8401,407
Most in one year 67847
Babies in 2025 17515
Estimated living today 26,0001,300
Median age today 4034
Peak year 19961981
Best rank 395th girls1,373rd boys
Rank in 2025 1,279th5,861st
First recorded 18801967
Girls / boys 34,222 / 2,6180 / 1,407

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 Antuans are over 34. That is 6 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.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Antonia and Antuan.