Antero
Antero reached its high-water mark in 1991 at number 5,942, and has been recorded 71 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 12,008th. About 70 Anteros are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 32.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Antero
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 71
- Estimated living today
- 70
- Median age today
- 32
- Peak year
- 1991
- Best rank
- 5,942nd
- Rank in 2025
- 12,008th
- First recorded
- 1965
How old the living Anteros are
born that year still alive today
Of the 71 babies given the name since 1965, about 70 are alive — 95 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1993 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.
Notable Anteros
- Antero de Quental (1842–1891)Portuguese poet
- Antero Niittymäki (born 1980)Finnish ice hockey goaltender
- Antero Kivi (1904–1981)Finnish discus thrower
- Veikko Antero Koskenniemi (1885–1962)Finnish poet, journalist and professor
- Antero Flores Aráoz (born 1942)Peruvian lawyer and politician
- Antero Ojala (1916–1982)speed skater
- Antero Manninen (born 1973)Finnish musician
People named Antero with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Names of 1991
The most popular boys’ names the year Antero peaked:
Antero elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Antero | 20 | 1,506th |
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.
Antero 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Antero | 1,657 | 129,117 |
| Finland girls | Antero | — | 19 |
Among boys in Finland this is mostly a middle name: of the 129,117 who carry it, 1,657 go by it.
A count of people on a register – 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 Antero lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 272 men called Antero were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jaén | Antero | 17 | 0.056 | 700 |
| Ourense | Antero | 8 | 0.055 | 883 |
| Pontevedra | Antero | 23 | 0.050 | 908 |
| Albacete | Antero | 8 | 0.041 | 1,166 |
| Badajoz | Antero | 12 | 0.037 | 972 |
| Toledo | Antero | 14 | 0.037 | 1,212 |
Listed in 16 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 36 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Antero 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.