girls:
7.1k births since 1896
#1940 (66th percentile)
boys:
1.5M births since 1880
#15 (100th percentile)
overall:
1.5M births since 1880
#18 (100th percentile)
The name Anthony is the #18 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,482,644 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 99.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 99.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #15 (99.7% percentile) for all time with 1,475,541 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #1,940 (66.1% percentile) for all time with 7,103 births since 1896.
Anthony has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1896 for girls).
The name Anthony has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Anthony reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 99.3% percentile (ranked #7) with 8,443 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 11,857 births per million (ranked 97.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1991, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Anthony ranks #45 for boys (95.2% percentile) with 3,406 births per million, which is 28.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Anthony reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 25.6% percentile (ranked #597) with 114 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 114 births per million (ranked 25.6% percentile). Despite a low point in 2009, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Anthony ranks #944 for girls (0.3% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 4.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Anthony".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Anthony. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 76.5% confident that Anthony is pronounced as AN-thuh-nee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AN-tuh-nee, at 23.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like AE1 N TH AH0 N IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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