Antonia
Antonia was given to 175 girls in 2025, #1,279 among girls’ names; 36,840 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 25,700 Americans named Antonia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (70% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 25 and 60.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Antonia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Antonia mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Antonia is “a female given name from Spanish.”
From Spanish Antonia. The feminine equivalent of Anthony.
/ænˈtəʊni.ə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Antonia?
#1,279 among girls’ names, 2025
Antonia fell from #1,020 in 2015 to #1,279 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.15 to 0.11 per 1,000.
678 babies in 1996, the peak
Antonia peaked in 1996, when 678 babies were given it (669 girls, #395 among girls’ names). The 175 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 175 | #1,279 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 236 | #1,056 | 0.15 |
| 2023 | 219 | #1,120 | 0.14 |
| 2022 | 193 | #1,246 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 212 | #1,153 | 0.13 |
| 2020 | 198 | #1,174 | 0.12 |
| 2019 | 229 | #1,090 | 0.14 |
| 2018 | 198 | #1,200 | 0.12 |
| 2017 | 257 | #1,010 | 0.15 |
| 2016 | 265 | #997 | 0.15 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 262 | #1,020 | 0.15 |
| 2014 | 272 | #981 | 0.15 |
| 2013 | 241 | #1,034 | 0.14 |
| 2012 | 223 | #1,113 | 0.13 |
| 2011 | 232 | #1,061 | 0.13 |
| 2010 | 208 | #1,165 | 0.12 |
| 2009 | 197 | #1,250 | 0.11 |
| 2008 | 250 | #1,045 | 0.13 |
| 2007 | 273 | #984 | 0.14 |
| 2006 | 257 | #1,004 | 0.14 |
| 2005 | 306 | #832 | 0.17 |
| 2004 | 329 | #784 | 0.18 |
| 2003 | 346 | #737 | 0.19 |
| 2002 | 399 | #637 | 0.22 |
| 2001 | 414 | #608 | 0.23 |
| 2000 | 413 | #615 | 0.23 |
| 1999 | 433 | #574 | 0.24 |
| 1998 | 465 | #540 | 0.26 |
| 1997 | 513 | #486 | 0.29 |
| 1996 | 669 | #395 | 0.38 |
| 1995 | 437 | #543 | 0.25 |
| 1994 | 318 | #669 | 0.18 |
| 1993 | 303 | #705 | 0.17 |
| 1992 | 342 | #653 | 0.19 |
| 1991 | 309 | #691 | 0.16 |
| 1990 | 337 | #658 | 0.18 |
| 1989 | 310 | #657 | 0.17 |
| 1988 | 357 | #575 | 0.20 |
| 1987 | 343 | #578 | 0.20 |
| 1986 | 342 | #571 | 0.20 |
| 1985 | 348 | #566 | 0.20 |
| 1984 | 339 | #553 | 0.20 |
| 1983 | 324 | #561 | 0.19 |
| 1982 | 317 | #577 | 0.19 |
| 1981 | 341 | #546 | 0.20 |
| 1980 | 333 | #558 | 0.20 |
| 1979 | 270 | #644 | 0.17 |
| 1978 | 281 | #608 | 0.18 |
| 1977 | 265 | #632 | 0.17 |
| 1976 | 298 | #563 | 0.20 |
| 1975 | 255 | #617 | 0.17 |
| 1974 | 310 | #545 | 0.21 |
| 1973 | 292 | #564 | 0.20 |
| 1972 | 282 | #580 | 0.19 |
| 1971 | 289 | #597 | 0.17 |
| 1970 | 308 | #577 | 0.18 |
| 1969 | 287 | #585 | 0.17 |
| 1968 | 226 | #645 | 0.14 |
| 1967 | 225 | #640 | 0.14 |
| 1966 | 248 | #599 | 0.15 |
| 1965 | 280 | #572 | 0.16 |
| 1964 | 250 | #646 | 0.13 |
| 1963 | 252 | #635 | 0.13 |
| 1962 | 238 | #657 | 0.12 |
| 1961 | 275 | #611 | 0.14 |
| 1960 | 258 | #628 | 0.13 |
| 1959 | 282 | #590 | 0.14 |
| 1958 | 301 | #564 | 0.15 |
| 1957 | 265 | #595 | 0.13 |
| 1956 | 327 | #517 | 0.16 |
| 1955 | 327 | #511 | 0.17 |
| 1954 | 359 | #464 | 0.18 |
| 1953 | 318 | #484 | 0.17 |
| 1952 | 365 | #450 | 0.20 |
| 1951 | 329 | #459 | 0.18 |
| 1950 | 310 | #459 | 0.18 |
| 1949 | 324 | #441 | 0.19 |
| 1948 | 357 | #417 | 0.21 |
| 1947 | 293 | #479 | 0.17 |
| 1946 | 286 | #462 | 0.18 |
| 1945 | 254 | #446 | 0.19 |
| 1944 | 265 | #441 | 0.20 |
| 1943 | 243 | #473 | 0.17 |
| 1942 | 261 | #459 | 0.19 |
| 1941 | 233 | #452 | 0.19 |
| 1940 | 199 | #484 | 0.17 |
| 1939 | 205 | #468 | 0.19 |
| 1938 | 196 | #474 | 0.18 |
| 1937 | 222 | #442 | 0.21 |
| 1936 | 219 | #435 | 0.21 |
| 1935 | 213 | #443 | 0.20 |
| 1934 | 216 | #441 | 0.21 |
| 1933 | 237 | #417 | 0.24 |
| 1932 | 224 | #442 | 0.21 |
| 1931 | 232 | #426 | 0.22 |
| 1930 | 256 | #412 | 0.23 |
| 1929 | 289 | #395 | 0.26 |
| 1928 | 302 | #385 | 0.26 |
| 1927 | 335 | #374 | 0.28 |
| 1926 | 327 | #376 | 0.28 |
| 1925 | 281 | #410 | 0.23 |
| 1924 | 334 | #373 | 0.27 |
| 1923 | 299 | #384 | 0.25 |
| 1922 | 280 | #394 | 0.23 |
| 1921 | 338 | #361 | 0.27 |
| 1920 | 312 | #373 | 0.26 |
| 1919 | 252 | #407 | 0.22 |
| 1918 | 292 | #382 | 0.25 |
| 1917 | 264 | #390 | 0.24 |
| 1916 | 248 | #398 | 0.24 |
| 1915 | 235 | #393 | 0.24 |
| 1914 | 202 | #374 | 0.27 |
| 1913 | 171 | #369 | 0.27 |
| 1912 | 146 | #379 | 0.26 |
| 1911 | 109 | #388 | 0.26 |
| 1910 | 73 | #466 | 0.18 |
| 1909 | 69 | #445 | 0.20 |
| 1908 | 74 | #419 | 0.22 |
| 1907 | 72 | #419 | 0.23 |
| 1906 | 57 | #453 | 0.19 |
| 1905 | 67 | #414 | 0.23 |
| 1904 | 61 | #412 | 0.22 |
| 1903 | 57 | #419 | 0.22 |
| 1902 | 43 | #479 | 0.16 |
| 1901 | 58 | #386 | 0.24 |
| 1900 | 52 | #468 | 0.17 |
| 1899 | 53 | #397 | 0.23 |
| 1898 | 53 | #422 | 0.20 |
| 1897 | 35 | #491 | 0.15 |
| 1896 | 52 | #392 | 0.22 |
| 1895 | 53 | #385 | 0.23 |
| 1894 | 55 | #377 | 0.25 |
| 1893 | 41 | #423 | 0.19 |
| 1892 | 41 | #414 | 0.19 |
| 1891 | 36 | #413 | 0.19 |
| 1890 | 37 | #413 | 0.19 |
| 1889 | 35 | #410 | 0.20 |
| 1888 | 44 | #362 | 0.25 |
| 1887 | 26 | #435 | 0.18 |
| 1886 | 31 | #387 | 0.21 |
| 1885 | 33 | #348 | 0.25 |
| 1884 | 30 | #366 | 0.23 |
| 1883 | 18 | #451 | 0.16 |
| 1882 | 28 | #336 | 0.26 |
| 1881 | 13 | #472 | 0.14 |
| 1880 | 18 | #390 | 0.20 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Antonia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 36,840 Americans recorded as Antonia, 93% are girls and 7% boys. In 2025 it went to 175 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Antonia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Antonia, and how old are they?
25,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 70% of the 36,840 Americans ever recorded as Antonia. The median Antonia alive today is 41 years old; half are between 25 and 60.
The 2020 Census counted 48,453 people named Antonia (46,996 women and girls, 1,457 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 26,080 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1,260 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4,680 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5,220 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6,220 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,320 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,940 |
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 Antonia born?
The states with the most babies named Antonia are New Jersey, New York and Florida, with 55% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 21 | #374 | 1.1× |
| New York | 20 | #794 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 20 | #799 | 1.0× |
| California | 14 | #1,585 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 12 | #1,808 | 2.4× |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,129 | 0.8× |
| Arizona | 7 | #828 | 2.1× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,549 | 0.6× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,193 | 0.3× |
Where Antonia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Antonia is most over-represented in New Mexico: since 1910 it was given 4.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Antonia 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 40,495 babies since 1880, Antonia is the most given (91% of them). In 2025 it was given to 175 of their 200 babies (88%), again the most given.
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 Antonia
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
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 Antonia and names like it
- Compare Antonia and AntoninaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sAntonia peaked in 1996.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Antonia since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Antonia: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Antonia.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Antonia alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.