girls:
33.8k births since 1880
#755 (87th percentile)
boys:
2.6k births since 1914
#2463 (46th percentile)
overall:
36.4k births since 1880
#1305 (83rd percentile)
The name Antonia is the #1,305 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 36,420 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 83.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 83.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #755 (86.8% percentile) for all time with 33,802 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #2,463 (46.3% percentile) for all time with 2,618 births since 1914.
Antonia has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1914 for boys).
The name Antonia has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 92.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Antonia reached its peak popularity in 1996, achieving the 57.1% percentile (ranked #369) with 349 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 349 births per million (ranked 57.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Antonia ranks #735 for girls (22.4% percentile) with 124 births per million, which is 35.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Antonia reached its peak popularity in 1974, achieving the 15.8% percentile (ranked #550) with 66 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 66 births per million (ranked 15.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2013.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Antonia".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Antonia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 69.8% confident that Antonia is pronounced as an-TOH-nee-uh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is an-TOH-nyuh, at 20.9% 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 AE0 N T OW1 N IY0 AH0) 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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