Anthony

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Anthony boys named Anthony

By the numbers

Total US births

1,495,156

Estimated living today

1.2 million

Median age today

38

Peak year

1990

Best rank

15th

Rank in 2025

46th

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

7,114 / 1,488,042

How old the living Anthonys are

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,495,156 babies given the name since 1880, about 1.2 million are alive — 81 in every hundred. Roughly 185,000 of them are children and 146,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1987 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Latin

From Latin Antōnius, name of a Roman gens (with excrescent -h- suggested by an unetymological association with). The Roman clan name is of uncertain etymology, but is not Greek or Hebrew; most likely of ett origin, possibly derived from Ani, the Etruscan god of the sky.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Anthonys

• Anthony Hopkins (born 1937)Welsh–American actor and director
• Anthony Bourdain (1956–2018)American chef and television personality
• Anthony Eden (1897–1977)British soldier, diplomat and politician
• Anthony Albanese (born 1963)31st prime minister of Australia
• Anthony Quinn (1915–2001)Mexican and American actor
• Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641)Flemish Baroque artist
• Anthony of Padua (1195–1231)Franciscan saint, Doctor of the Church
• Anthony Burgess (1917–1993)English writer and composer

People named Anthony with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Anthony is most common

• NY195,897
• CA188,324
• PA93,887
• IL83,582
• TX81,573
• NJ74,670
• OH66,327
• FL60,700
• MI53,037
• MA42,782

Relative to how many babies each state records, Anthony is most concentrated in New Jersey (1.8×), Rhode Island (1.7×), New York (1.7×), Nevada (1.7×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1990

The most popular boys’ names the year Anthony peaked:

• Michael
• Christopher
• Matthew
• Joshua
• Daniel
• David

All the names of 1990

Anthony elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Anthony: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Anthony is most concentrated in Jura, where 0.24% of children were given it – 35 of them.

Anthony: rank by region

In 2025, Anthony was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.

In 2018, Anthony was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

In 2025, Anthony was given 2 times or more in 4 regions of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Anthony appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (265th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Anthony by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Anthony among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Anthony lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 2,559 men called Anthony were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 47 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 5 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Antonio
• Antoinette
• Antonia
• Antoine
• Anton
• Antwan
• Antony
• Antonella
• Antionette
• Antonette
• Antwon
• Antone

Anthony against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Anthony vs Antonio
• Anthony vs Antoinette
• Anthony vs Antonia
• Anthony vs Antoine
• Anthony vs Anton
• Anthony vs Antwan

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