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Antony

About 10,701 American babies have been named Antony since 1900, most of them around 2007. In 2025 it ranked 1,621st. About 9,600 Antonys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 29.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Antony

By the numbers

Total US births
10,701
Estimated living today
9,600
Median age today
29
Peak year
2007
Best rank
804th
Rank in 2025
1,621st
First recorded
1900

How old the living Antonys are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 10,701 babies given the name since 1900, about 9,600 are alive — 89 in every hundred. Roughly 2,300 of them are children and 510 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1996 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 Latin

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Antonys

People named Antony with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Antony is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Antony is most concentrated in California (2.5×), Florida (2.2×), New York (2.2×), New Jersey (1.8×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2007

The most popular boys’ names the year Antony peaked:

All the names of 2007

Antony elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France boys Antony 17,575 130th
England and Wales boys Antony 2,457 158th
New Zealand boys Antony 1,594 56th
Italy boys Antony 1,127
Scotland boys Antony 821 110th
Belgium boys Antony 274 421st
Poland boys Antony 152 birth registrations 272nd
Switzerland boys Antony 138 605th
Ireland boys Antony 31 529th
France girls Antony 30 1,317th
Northern Ireland boys Antony 9 272nd

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.

Antony: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German boys Switzerland Antony 46 0.004% 610th
French boys Switzerland Antony 85 0.020% 174th
Italian boys Switzerland Antony 7 0.011% 109th

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, Antony is most concentrated in Vaud, where 0.02% of children were given it – 30 of them.

Antony: rank by region

In 2014, Antony was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Wallonia Antony 511 5

In 2023, Antony was given 2 times or more in 2 regions of Poland.

Region Spelling Place Children
Dolnośląskie Antony 249 2
Śląskie Antony 258 2

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, 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.

Antony by city

CityYears BirthsBest rank
Berlin boys 2017–2023 6 421st

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Antony 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 Antony 44 100

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 Antony lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 368 men called Antony 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
Balears, Illes Antony 22 0.035 1,604
Ourense Antony 5 0.034 1,197
Alicante/Alacant Antony 31 0.031 1,923
Málaga Antony 21 0.024 1,905
Valencia/València Antony 29 0.021 2,218
Toledo Antony 8 0.021 1,892

Listed in 19 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 33 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

Antony 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.