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Antonio vs Antuan

American parents have registered 264,970 Antonios since 1880, against 1,407 Antuans. Antonio is still ahead, with 2,058 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Antonio 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

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 1981, when Antonio had 3,969 and Antuan had 47.

Side by side

  Antonio Antuan
Total US births 264,9701,407
Most in one year 5,08947
Babies in 2025 2,05815
Estimated living today 229,0001,300
Median age today 3234
Peak year 19971981
Best rank 75th boys1,373rd boys
Rank in 2025 176th5,861st
First recorded 18801967
Girls / boys 1,975 / 262,9950 / 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 Antuans alive today are over 34; half the Antonios are over 32. That is 2 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: Antonio and Antuan.