Antonia
Antonia is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 236 births. Its best rank was 336th, in 1882.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2360.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 1996669 births
- Best rank
- #336in 1882
- Since 1880
- 36,660people given the name
The story in the numbers
34,042 girls have been named Antonia in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1996, with 669 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1969, and the 1990s alone account for 12%. It has spent 129 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 2,618 boys have also been given it, 7.1% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Antonia | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 276 | |
| 1890s | 456 | |
| 1900s | 610 | |
| 1910s | 1,992 | |
| 1920s | 3,097 | |
| 1930s | 2,220 | |
| 1940s | 2,714 | |
| 1950s | 3,184 | |
| 1960s | 2,539 | |
| 1970s | 2,848 | |
| 1980s | 3,354 | |
| 1990s | 4,126 | |
| 2000s | 3,183 | |
| 2010s | 2,386 | |
| 2020s | 1,057 |
In 1996, its biggest year
Antonia was the 395th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1996 were Emily, Jessica, Ashley, Sarah and Samantha. See all of 1996.
Names that rose and fell with Antonia
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Katherynpeak 1990
- Juanapeak 1994
- Corinnepeak 1978
- Clarepeak 1998
- Katherinepeak 1990
- Elizabethpeak 1990
- Franciscapeak 1928
- Petrapeak 1927
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.