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Antonietta vs Antonio

American parents have registered 264,970 Antonios since 1880, against 1,260 Antoniettas. Antonio is still ahead, with 2,058 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Antonietta 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 1906, when Antonietta had 7 and Antonio had 80.

Side by side

  Antonietta Antonio
Total US births 1,260264,970
Most in one year 535,089
Babies in 2025 under 52,058
Estimated living today 950229,000
Median age today 5432
Peak year 19691997
Best rank 1,648th girls75th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked176th
First recorded 19001880
Girls / boys 1,260 / 01,975 / 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 Antoniettas alive today are over 54; half the Antonios are over 32. That is 22 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 Antonietta Antonio
Italy 3,39394,339
France 55020,885
England and Wales 182,684

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: Antonietta and Antonio.