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Antonio vs Antonyo

American parents have registered 264,970 Antonios since 1880, against 684 Antonyos. Antonio is still ahead, with 2,058 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Antonio 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

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 2010, when Antonio had 3,540 and Antonyo had 20.

Side by side

  Antonio Antonyo
Total US births 264,970684
Most in one year 5,08924
Babies in 2025 2,058under 5
Estimated living today 229,000660
Median age today 3229
Peak year 19971986
Best rank 75th boys2,290th boys
Rank in 2025 176thunranked
First recorded 18801962
Girls / boys 1,975 / 262,9950 / 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 Antonios alive today are over 32; half the Antonyos are over 29. That is 3 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 Antonio Antonyo
France 20,88545

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: Antonio and Antonyo.