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Antoinette

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Antoinette is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 57 births. Its best rank was 170th, in 1914, 1917.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
570.00% of girls
Peak year
19241,333 births
Best rank
#170first in 1914
Since 1880
78,664people given the name
Babies named Antoinette, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

78,664 girls have been named Antoinette in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 1,333 births — 0.11% of all girls recorded that year.

The name has all but left use: 57 births in 2024, against 1,333 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1950, and the 1920s alone account for 15%. It has spent 121 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadegirls named Antoinette
1880s431
1890s901
1900s1,969
1910s8,216
1920s11,578
1930s7,384
1940s8,244
1950s9,044
1960s9,938
1970s7,203
1980s6,931
1990s4,286
2000s1,478
2010s754
2020s307

In 1924, its biggest year

Antoinette was the 173rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1924 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Betty and Margaret. See all of 1924.

Names that rose and fell with Antoinette

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.