Antoinette

Girls’ name Recorded 1880-2025

Antoinette was given to 55 girls in 2025, #3,002 among girls’ names; 78,789 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).

An estimated 42,500 Americans named Antoinette and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (54% of everyone recorded); the median is 58 years old and half are between 42 and 70.

Babies named Antoinette each year, first recorded in 1880

Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).

Antoinette or Antionette Names of the 1920s Names in New York

Births of Antoinette by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.

What does Antoinette mean?

Wiktionary, English section

Antoinette is “a female given name from French; best known for the ill-fated French queen Marie Antoinette.”

From French Antoinette, feminine diminutive of Antoine, equivalent to Anthony.

/ˌæntwəˈnet/

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary, entry Antoinette (English), CC BY‑SA 4.0. Quoted from the entry; text after a cross-reference to another sense is left out.

Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).

How popular is Antoinette?

#3,002 among girls’ names, 2025

Antoinette fell from #2,356 in 2015 to #3,002 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 43.7 to 34.2 per million.

1,333 babies in 1924, the peak

Antoinette peaked in 1924, when 1,333 girls were given it, #173 among girls’ names. The 55 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.

Antoinette by year
Year	Births	Rank	Per 1,000 girls
2025	55	#3,002	0.03
2024	57	#2,895	0.04
2023	51	#3,188	0.03
2022	61	#2,795	0.04
2021	67	#2,590	0.04
2020	71	#2,441	0.04
2019	59	#2,818	0.04
2018	57	#2,911	0.03
2017	67	#2,604	0.04
2016	68	#2,598	0.04

Every recorded year (146)

Year	Births	Rank	Per 1,000 girls
2015	78	#2,356	0.04
2014	93	#2,081	0.05
2013	73	#2,462	0.04
2012	83	#2,266	0.05
2011	83	#2,261	0.05
2010	93	#2,119	0.05
2009	116	#1,838	0.06
2008	109	#1,930	0.06
2007	143	#1,580	0.07
2006	121	#1,724	0.06
2005	151	#1,417	0.08
2004	145	#1,426	0.08
2003	129	#1,508	0.07
2002	146	#1,329	0.08
2001	204	#1,050	0.11
2000	214	#990	0.12
1999	261	#826	0.15
1998	285	#756	0.16
1997	318	#680	0.18
1996	349	#644	0.20
1995	364	#611	0.21
1994	401	#573	0.22
1993	447	#535	0.25
1992	515	#479	0.28
1991	593	#428	0.32
1990	753	#354	0.40
1989	702	#367	0.38
1988	745	#330	0.42
1987	788	#310	0.45
1986	780	#308	0.45
1985	690	#340	0.40
1984	651	#353	0.39
1983	633	#360	0.38
1982	687	#343	0.41
1981	665	#353	0.40
1980	590	#389	0.36
1979	620	#365	0.39
1978	537	#387	0.35
1977	555	#380	0.36
1976	611	#352	0.42
1975	646	#341	0.44
1974	684	#324	0.47
1973	761	#306	0.52
1972	802	#305	0.53
1971	968	#291	0.58
1970	1,020	#288	0.58
1969	981	#286	0.58
1968	964	#279	0.59
1967	1,032	#262	0.63
1966	951	#274	0.56
1965	994	#273	0.56
1964	1,025	#285	0.54
1963	1,055	#280	0.55
1962	996	#291	0.51
1961	1,008	#292	0.50
1960	932	#307	0.46
1959	879	#311	0.43
1958	859	#310	0.43
1957	943	#297	0.46
1956	952	#283	0.47
1955	846	#299	0.43
1954	961	#270	0.49
1953	878	#282	0.47
1952	968	#253	0.52
1951	899	#257	0.50
1950	860	#260	0.50
1949	889	#255	0.52
1948	974	#239	0.57
1947	992	#238	0.56
1946	781	#255	0.50
1945	735	#249	0.56
1944	733	#244	0.55
1943	800	#238	0.57
1942	867	#223	0.64
1941	732	#234	0.61
1940	741	#227	0.65
1939	766	#217	0.70
1938	739	#227	0.67
1937	687	#237	0.65
1936	662	#241	0.64
1935	627	#249	0.60
1934	616	#253	0.59
1933	646	#239	0.64
1932	787	#218	0.74
1931	878	#206	0.82
1930	976	#197	0.87
1929	937	#199	0.84
1928	1,027	#196	0.89
1927	1,033	#196	0.87
1926	1,158	#182	1.0
1925	1,172	#187	1.0
1924	1,333	#173	1.1
1923	1,251	#175	1.0
1922	1,271	#175	1.1
1921	1,234	#180	1.0
1920	1,162	#180	1.0
1919	1,090	#180	1.0
1918	1,148	#179	1.0
1917	1,177	#170	1.1
1916	1,063	#175	1.0
1915	1,047	#173	1.1
1914	830	#170	1.1
1913	646	#181	1.0
1912	507	#194	0.91
1911	388	#183	0.93
1910	320	#200	0.81
1909	296	#196	0.85
1908	266	#205	0.80
1907	254	#204	0.80
1906	210	#216	0.71
1905	181	#236	0.62
1904	186	#224	0.68
1903	159	#238	0.61
1902	143	#261	0.54
1901	141	#242	0.59
1900	133	#282	0.44
1899	130	#244	0.56
1898	126	#269	0.49
1897	97	#291	0.41
1896	91	#305	0.38
1895	96	#288	0.41
1894	91	#289	0.41
1893	63	#339	0.30
1892	72	#314	0.34
1891	69	#300	0.37
1890	66	#310	0.35
1889	69	#286	0.39
1888	66	#288	0.37
1887	47	#311	0.32
1886	46	#306	0.32
1885	41	#317	0.31
1884	35	#332	0.27
1883	44	#270	0.39
1882	35	#296	0.32
1881	29	#292	0.32
1880	19	#375	0.21

Download Antoinette’s births by year (CSV)

Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.

Is Antoinette a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Antoinette has been given almost only to girls: 68 boys in 146 years of records.

Girls and boys named Antoinette: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.

How many people are named Antoinette, and how old are they?

42,500 alive in 2026, estimated

That is 54% of the 78,789 Americans ever recorded as Antoinette. The median Antoinette alive today is 58 years old; half are between 42 and 70.

The 2020 Census counted 46,137 people named Antoinette (46,081 women and girls, 56 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 46,952 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.

Alive today, by age

100-10982

90-99980

80-893,530

70-796,750

60-698,250

50-59 (median)7,820

40-496,160

30-395,520

20-291,950

10-19932

0-9542

Alive today, by generation

By generation
Generation	Born	Alive
Silent Generation	1928-1945	4,000
Baby Boomers	1946-1964	13,800
Generation X	1965-1980	11,800
Millennials	1981-1996	9,490
Generation Z	1997-2012	2,570
Generation Alpha	2013-2025	852

An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.

Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).

Where are babies named Antoinette born?

The states with the most babies named Antoinette are New York, Pennsylvania and California, with 44% of its births recorded by state since 1910.

States with the most births: girls and boys together; rank among girls’ names in the state in 2025
State	Since 1910	Rank, girls	vs. national
New York	17,157	#2,118	2.6×
Pennsylvania	7,519	#1,411	1.5×
California	6,401	#2,289	1.1×
Illinois	5,704	not ranked	1.4×
New Jersey	5,080	not ranked	2.2×
Ohio	3,250	not ranked	0.8×
Michigan	2,780	not ranked	0.9×
Massachusetts	2,191	not ranked	0.9×
Louisiana	2,000	not ranked	1.3×
Connecticut	1,941	not ranked	1.9×

Where Antoinette is more common than its national share predicts

Relative to its national share, Antoinette is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 2.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.

New York2.65×

New Jersey2.22×

District of Columbia1.95×

Connecticut1.91×

Pennsylvania1.50×

New Mexico1.47×

Illinois1.42×

Louisiana1.26×

Bars start at 1× (as often as the national share predicts).

States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Antoinette with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.

Names spelled alike

Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 99,154 babies since 1880, Antoinette is the most given (79% of them). In 2025 it was given to 55 of their 55 babies (100%), again the most given.

Antoinette and the names spelled alike
Name	Since 1880	Births 2025	Peak year
Antoinette	78,789	55	1924
Antionette	9,141	under 5	1960
Antonette	7,803	under 5	1917
Antonetta	1,435	under 5	1915
Antoniette	796	under 5	1967
Antoinetta	722	under 5	1922
Anntoinette	376	under 5	1963
Anntonette	92	under 5	1970

Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.

Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Antoinette

Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.

Name	Recorded	1880-2025
Anne	325,954
Antonette	7,803
Jeannette	69,300
Marcella	65,836
Delfina	4,037
Corrine	20,831

Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.

More about Antoinette and names like it

Compare Antoinette and AntionetteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
The most given names of the 1920sAntoinette peaked in 1924.
New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Antoinette since 1910.
French namesWiktionary’s origin for Antoinette: every such name, by how often it is given.
The top names of 1924The year the most babies were named Antoinette.
The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Antoinette alive today were born 1946-1964.
Names starting with AMost given first.

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