Antonio
Antonio is ranked 180th among boys in 2024 (2,047 births). Its best rank was 71st, in 1976.
- Rank in 2024
- #180down 1 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2,0470.12% of boys
- Peak year
- 19975,069 births
- Best rank
- #71in 1976
- Since 1880
- 262,883people given the name
The story in the numbers
260,908 boys have been named Antonio in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1997, with 5,069 births — 0.27% of all boys recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 139 → 180).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1990, and the 1990s alone account for 18%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 36 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,975 girls have also been given it, 0.75% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Antonio | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 320 | |
| 1890s | 340 | |
| 1900s | 860 | |
| 1910s | 4,118 | |
| 1920s | 7,140 | |
| 1930s | 5,231 | |
| 1940s | 6,100 | |
| 1950s | 11,638 | |
| 1960s | 18,596 | |
| 1970s | 33,280 | |
| 1980s | 41,618 | |
| 1990s | 46,546 | |
| 2000s | 46,245 | |
| 2010s | 28,334 | |
| 2020s | 10,542 |
In 1997, its biggest year
Antonio was the 75th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1997 were Michael, Jacob, Matthew, Christopher and Joshua. See all of 1997.
Names that rose and fell with Antonio
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Josepeak 2002
- Franciscopeak 1993
- Juanpeak 2005
- Josefpeak 1999
- Carlospeak 2001
- Albertopeak 1991
- Ernestopeak 2003
- Felipepeak 2001
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.