Antoinette
The girl's name Antoinette has been in the national records since 1880, with 78,789 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 2,998th. About 43,000 Antoinettes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 57.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Antoinette boys named Antoinette
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 78,789
- Estimated living today
- 43,000
- Median age today
- 57
- Peak year
- 1924
- Best rank
- 173rd
- Rank in 2025
- 2,998th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 78,721 / 68
How old the living Antoinettes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 78,789 babies given the name since 1880, about 43,000 are alive — 55 in every hundred. Roughly 1,300 of them are children and 15,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1968 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 French
From French Antoinette, feminine diminutive of Antoine, equivalent to Anthony.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Antoinettes
- Antoinette Rijpma-de Jong (born 1995)Dutch speed skater
- Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1696–1762)German duchess
- Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825–1921)American minister
- Antoinette de Bourbon (1495–1583)Duchess consort of Guise
- Aimée Antoinette Camus (1879–1965)French botanist
- Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy (1920–2011)Monegasque princess
- Antoinette de Mérode (1828–1864)Monegasque princess
- Antoinette Nana Djimou (born 1985)French heptathlete and pentathlete
People named Antoinette with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Antoinette is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Antoinette is most concentrated in New York (3.1×), the District of Columbia (2.7×), New Jersey (2.6×), Connecticut (2.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1924
The most popular girls’ names the year Antoinette peaked:
Antoinette elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Antoinette | 72,545 | 35th |
| Ireland girls | Antoinette | 1,540 | 90th |
| England and Wales girls | Antoinette | 210 | 783rd |
| Belgium girls | Antoinette | 60 | 1,072nd |
| Scotland girls | Antoinette | 24 | 409th |
| Poland girls | Antoinette | 7 birth registrations | 599th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Antoinette | 3 | 358th |
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.
Antoinette 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.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Antoinette | 7,399 | 30,179 |
| the Netherlands boys | Antoinette | — | 621 |
| Finland girls | Antoinette | 17 | 152 |
Among girls in the Netherlands this is mostly a middle name: of the 30,179 who carry it, 7,399 go by it.
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.
Related names
Antoinette against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.