Antoinette vs Anton
American parents have registered 78,789 Antoinettes since 1880, against 23,936 Antons. But in 2025 it was Anton that was commoner, 132 babies to 55.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Antoinette Anton
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
Of the 146 years in which either name was published, Antoinette for 108 years and Anton for 38 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.
- 1880–1890 Anton ahead
- 1891–1892 Antoinette ahead
- 1893 Anton ahead
- 1894–1999 Antoinette ahead
- 2000–2025 Anton ahead
Side by side
| Antoinette | Anton | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 78,789 | 23,936 |
| Most in one year | 1,333 | 357 |
| Babies in 2025 | 55 | 132 |
| Estimated living today | 43,000 | 15,000 |
| Median age today | 57 | 34 |
| Peak year | 1924 | 1915 |
| Best rank | 173rd girls | 252nd boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 2,998th | 1,388th |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1880 |
| Girls / boys | 78,721 / 68 | 21 / 23,915 |
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 Antoinettes alive today are over 57; half the Antons are over 34. That is 23 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Antoinette New York (3.1×), the District of Columbia (2.7×), New Jersey (2.6×)
- Anton North Dakota (11.3×), Wisconsin (3.9×), Illinois (3.0×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
Both names abroad
Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.
| Country | Antoinette | Anton |
|---|---|---|
| France | 72,545 | 5,365 |
| England and Wales | 210 | 1,845 |
| Ireland | 1,540 | 188 |
| Belgium | 60 | 1,175 |
| Poland | 7 | 462 |
| Scotland | 24 | 315 |
| Northern Ireland | 3 | 122 |
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: Antoinette and Anton.