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Antonia vs Antonio

American parents have registered 264,970 Antonios since 1880, against 36,840 Antonias. Antonio is still ahead, with 2,058 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Antonia against Antonio, 1880 to 2025 0 1.5k 3k 4.5k 6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Antonia Antonio

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, Antonio for 133 years and Antonia for 13 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Antonia Antonio
Total US births 36,840264,970
Most in one year 6785,089
Babies in 2025 1752,058
Estimated living today 26,000229,000
Median age today 4032
Peak year 19961997
Best rank 395th girls75th boys
Rank in 2025 1,279th176th
First recorded 18801880
Girls / boys 34,222 / 2,6181,975 / 262,995

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 Antonios are over 32. That is 8 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 Antonia Antonio
Italy 6,41794,339
France 10,45020,885
England and Wales 4,7102,684
Poland 1,698669
Switzerland 707934
Belgium 393708
Scotland 576224
Norway 121612
Ireland 424246
Northern Ireland 7333

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: Antonia and Antonio.