Antony
Antony was given to 104 boys in 2025, #1,622 among boys’ names; 10,701 Americans have been recorded with it since 1900 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,520 Americans named Antony and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 19 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Antony by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Antony mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Antony is “a male given name from Latin, a mostly British spelling variant of Anthony.”
/ˈæntəni/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Antony?
#1,622 among boys’ names, 2025
Antony fell from #1,382 in 2015 to #1,622 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 65.2 to 60.9 per million.
266 babies in 2007, the peak
Antony peaked in 2007, when 266 boys were given it, #804 among boys’ names. The 104 births of 2025 are 39% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 104 | #1,622 | 0.06 |
| 2024 | 92 | #1,776 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 117 | #1,508 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 119 | #1,516 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 76 | #1,963 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 73 | #1,964 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 94 | #1,691 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 83 | #1,823 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 96 | #1,645 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 110 | #1,522 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (116)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 125 | #1,382 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 118 | #1,422 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 169 | #1,096 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 156 | #1,167 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 147 | #1,198 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 209 | #956 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 199 | #992 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 231 | #899 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 266 | #804 | 0.13 |
| 2006 | 248 | #819 | 0.12 |
| 2005 | 248 | #784 | 0.12 |
| 2004 | 238 | #764 | 0.12 |
| 2003 | 248 | #734 | 0.13 |
| 2002 | 220 | #783 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 226 | #758 | 0.12 |
| 2000 | 209 | #783 | 0.11 |
| 1999 | 178 | #848 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 176 | #832 | 0.09 |
| 1997 | 189 | #780 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 188 | #773 | 0.10 |
| 1995 | 153 | #881 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 152 | #869 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 151 | #857 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 156 | #843 | 0.08 |
| 1991 | 166 | #797 | 0.08 |
| 1990 | 151 | #830 | 0.07 |
| 1989 | 140 | #845 | 0.07 |
| 1988 | 163 | #738 | 0.09 |
| 1987 | 144 | #763 | 0.08 |
| 1986 | 157 | #721 | 0.09 |
| 1985 | 100 | #906 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 125 | #772 | 0.07 |
| 1983 | 124 | #783 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 134 | #760 | 0.07 |
| 1981 | 120 | #801 | 0.07 |
| 1980 | 116 | #816 | 0.07 |
| 1979 | 98 | #882 | 0.06 |
| 1978 | 142 | #706 | 0.09 |
| 1977 | 111 | #808 | 0.07 |
| 1976 | 120 | #756 | 0.08 |
| 1975 | 117 | #765 | 0.07 |
| 1974 | 117 | #749 | 0.07 |
| 1973 | 114 | #751 | 0.07 |
| 1972 | 128 | #707 | 0.08 |
| 1971 | 146 | #684 | 0.08 |
| 1970 | 177 | #611 | 0.10 |
| 1969 | 159 | #623 | 0.09 |
| 1968 | 150 | #617 | 0.09 |
| 1967 | 127 | #662 | 0.07 |
| 1966 | 105 | #726 | 0.06 |
| 1965 | 110 | #712 | 0.06 |
| 1964 | 111 | #730 | 0.06 |
| 1963 | 108 | #746 | 0.05 |
| 1962 | 97 | #771 | 0.05 |
| 1961 | 88 | #812 | 0.04 |
| 1960 | 96 | #774 | 0.05 |
| 1959 | 67 | #938 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 60 | #978 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 55 | #1,022 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 47 | #1,106 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 49 | #1,075 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 58 | #973 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 54 | #974 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 46 | #1,065 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 29 | #1,373 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 34 | #1,231 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 24 | #1,503 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 25 | #1,461 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 13 | #2,172 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 19 | #1,641 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 20 | #1,497 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 14 | #1,891 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 15 | #1,909 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 15 | #1,868 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,335 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 16 | #1,739 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 17 | #1,638 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 19 | #1,563 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,338 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 8 | #2,639 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 7 | #2,968 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 9 | #2,570 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,215 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,324 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,332 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 14 | #2,084 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,319 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 9 | #2,854 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 17 | #1,961 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,573 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 14 | #2,196 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 20 | #1,780 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 13 | #2,336 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 20 | #1,769 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,378 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 20 | #1,751 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 19 | #1,755 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 21 | #1,652 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 22 | #1,531 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 15 | #1,952 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 14 | #1,972 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 22 | #1,264 | 0.03 |
| 1913 | 10 | #1,810 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,286 | 0.01 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,134 | 0.04 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,171 | 0.04 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Antony a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Antony has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 116 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Antony: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Antony, and how old are they?
9,520 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 89% of the 10,701 Americans ever recorded as Antony. The median Antony alive today is 30 years old; half are between 19 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 12,470 people named Antony (67 women and girls, 12,403 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,200 born in the U.S. The Census count is 36% above 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 | 49 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 765 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,800 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,210 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,330 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,370 |
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 Antony born?
The states with the most babies named Antony are Texas, California and New York, with 66% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 12 | #1,486 | 0.7× |
| California | 11 | #1,512 | 1.3× |
| New York | 10 | #1,128 | 1.4× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #928 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,104 | 0.3× |
| Washington | 5 | #1,008 | 0.5× |
Where Antony is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Antony is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 1.4 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 boys’ 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 Antony 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 318,029 babies since 1880, Antony is the third most given (3.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 104 of their 2,346 babies (4.4%), the second most given that year.
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 Antony
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 Antony and names like it
- Compare Antony and AntonioBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAntony peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Antony since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Antony.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Antony alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.