Antanasia — girls' name

What the Data Says About Antanasia

The Social Security Administration has registered 74 babies named Antanasia between 1998 and 2011, spanning 14 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Antanasia currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2011. The name reached its historical peak in 2005, when 12 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Antanasia performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 61 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Antanasia shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 7 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Antanasia in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Antanasia in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 74 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.