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Antoni vs Antonia

American parents have registered 36,840 Antonias since 1880, against 2,358 Antonis. Antonia is still ahead, with 175 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Antoni against Antonia, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Antoni Antonia

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

Antonia 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 2007, when Antoni had 100 and Antonia had 279.

Side by side

  Antoni Antonia
Total US births 2,35836,840
Most in one year 100678
Babies in 2025 61175
Estimated living today 2,20026,000
Median age today 1940
Peak year 20071996
Best rank 1,562nd boys395th girls
Rank in 2025 2,284th1,279th
First recorded 19151880
Girls / boys 5 / 2,35334,222 / 2,618

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 Antonias alive today are over 40; half the Antonis are over 19. That is 21 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Antoni Antonia
Poland 129,5711,698
France 1,80010,450
England and Wales 3,1384,710
Ireland 649424
Scotland 378576
Switzerland 158707
Belgium 361393
Norway 342121
Northern Ireland 9373

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: Antoni and Antonia.