Antonia
Antonia reached its high-water mark in 1996 at number 395, and has been recorded 36,840 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,279th. About 26,000 Antonias are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 40.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Antonia boys named Antonia
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 36,840
- Estimated living today
- 26,000
- Median age today
- 40
- Peak year
- 1996
- Best rank
- 395th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,279th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 34,222 / 2,618
How old the living Antonias are
born that year still alive today
Of the 36,840 babies given the name since 1880, about 26,000 are alive — 70 in every hundred. Roughly 4,100 of them are children and 5,100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1985 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 Spanish
From Spanish Antonia. The feminine equivalent of Anthony.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Antonias
- Antonia Thomas (born 1986)British actress
- Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily (1784–1806)Princess of Asturias
- Antonia Maury (1866–1952)American astronomer
- Antonia Fraser (born 1932)British author and novelist
- Princess Maria Antonia Koháry, 2nd Princess of Koháry (1797–1862)Hungarian noblewoman
- Antonia San Juan (born 1961)Spanish actress, director and screenwriter
- Antonia Iacobescu (born 1989)Romanian singer and model
- Antonia Brico (1902–1989)American conductor
People named Antonia with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Antonia is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Antonia is most concentrated in New Mexico (6.5×), Texas (2.8×), Arizona (2.7×), California (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1996
The most popular girls’ names the year Antonia peaked:
Antonia elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Antonia | 10,450 | 121st |
| Italy girls | Antonia | 6,417 | — |
| England and Wales girls | Antonia | 4,710 | 190th |
| Austria girls | Antonia | 3,160 | 21st |
| Poland girls | Antonia | 1,698 birth registrations | 117th |
| Switzerland girls | Antonia | 707 | 196th |
| Scotland girls | Antonia | 576 | 158th |
| Ireland girls | Antonia | 424 | 244th |
| Belgium girls | Antonia | 393 | 322nd |
| Norway girls | Antonia | 121 | 366th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Antonia | 73 | 197th |
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.
Antonia: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Antonia | 652 | 0.052% | 138th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Antonia | 47 | 0.011% | 306th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Antonia | 8 | 0.012% | 120th |
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, Antonia is most concentrated in Basel-Stadt, where 0.07% of children were given it – 25 of them.
Antonia: rank by region
In 2025, Antonia was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Antonia | 584 | 8 |
| Brussels | Antonia | 159 | 7 |
In 2019, Antonia was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Antonia | 10 | 1 |
In 2025, Antonia was given 2 times or more in 10 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Antonia | 190 | 3 |
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Antonia | 143 | 3 |
| Lubuskie | Antonia | 139 | 2 |
| Łódzkie | Antonia | 188 | 2 |
| Małopolskie | Antonia | 168 | 5 |
| Pomorskie | Antonia | 180 | 3 |
| Śląskie | Antonia | 197 | 4 |
| Warmińsko-Mazurskie | Antonia | 109 | 3 |
| Wielkopolskie | Antonia | 204 | 3 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Antonia | 175 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Antonia appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (159th).
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.
Antonia by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 384 | 45th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Antonia 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 | Antonia | 29,941 | 118,160 |
| the Netherlands boys | Antonia | 10 | 1,390 |
| Finland girls | Antonia +1 spelling | 193 | 706 |
Among boys in the Netherlands this is mostly a middle name: of the 1,390 who carry it, 10 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.
Where Antonia lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 175,294 women called Antonia were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Córdoba | Antonia | 8,509 | 21.529 | 4 |
| Jaén | Antonia | 6,431 | 20.600 | 6 |
| Badajoz | Antonia | 6,504 | 19.301 | 4 |
| Balears, Illes | Antonia | 11,378 | 18.142 | 4 |
| Cádiz | Antonia | 9,353 | 14.596 | 9 |
| Murcia | Antonia | 11,268 | 14.225 | 7 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Antonia against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.