girls:
2k births since 1915
#3841 (33rd percentile)
boys:
258.8k births since 1880
#141 (97th percentile)
overall:
260.8k births since 1880
#305 (96th percentile)
The name Antonio is the #305 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 260,788 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 96.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 96.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #141 (96.9% percentile) for all time with 258,813 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #3,841 (32.8% percentile) for all time with 1,975 births since 1915.
Antonio has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1915 for girls).
The name Antonio has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Antonio reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 90.6% percentile (ranked #75) with 2,537 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 2,537 births per million (ranked 90.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2000, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Antonio ranks #176 for boys (80.8% percentile) with 1,102 births per million, which is 43.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Antonio reached its peak popularity in 1976, achieving the 7.0% percentile (ranked #707) with 37 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 37 births per million (ranked 7.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Antonio".
These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Antonio.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Antonio", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Antonio.
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Antonio. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 71.4% confident that Antonio is pronounced as an-TOH-nee-oh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uhn-TOH-nee-oh, at 28.6% confidence, with 4 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 OW0) 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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