Meaning not yet researched.
Anthony: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5,967 in 2025. Its best rank was #7 in 2008.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #7 in 2008; #46 in 2025. About 99.8% of babies named Anthony in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#46 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #7.
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Anthony: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5,967 boys in 2025. Peak: #7 in 2008 · most boys in one year: 25,088 (1990).
In 2025, 5,967 US boys were named Anthony, making it the 46th most common boys’ name of the year, down 2 places from #44 in 2024. That is 386 fewer than the 6,353 boys named Anthony in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #7, reached in 2008. The most boys given the name in a single year was 25,088, in 1990. For comparison, it was #25 in 2015 and #36 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Anthony in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 130 babies with the name. In all, 1,495,156 US babies have been given the name, 0.5% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 216,984 babies named Anthony.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 73,583 US boys were named Anthony; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 9,900. In 2025 that was about 1 in 286 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Anthony ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #11 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 40 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Antonio (264,970 babies since 1880), Toni (101,762 babies since 1880), Antoine (27,652 babies since 1880) and Anton (23,936 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Antonino, Anthoni and Antonios are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Ant and Tony.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Antonino (2,106), Anthoni (947), Antonios (867), Anthonie (777), Antonyo (684), Antonius (622), Anthany (537), Anthonio (438), Andoni (236), Antonya (209), Anthonee (208), Anthonia (191), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Anthony is listed as a nickname for Tony.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 2 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 327 | #11 | #9 |
| Rhode Island | 32 | #14 | #10 |
| Delaware | 28 | #15 | #10 |
| Connecticut | 102 | #16 | #15 |
| Massachusetts | 195 | #20 | #26 |
| District of Columbia | 22 | #25 | #34 |
| Nevada | 65 | #29 | #5 |
| Florida | 460 | #32 | #17 |
| Maryland | 119 | #33 | #31 |
| New York | 391 | #34 | #20 |
| California | 819 | #35 | #16 |
| Illinois | 225 | #36 | #14 |
| South Carolina | 97 | #38 | #59 |
| New Mexico | 35 | #38 | #21 |
| Texas | 702 | #42 | #22 |
| Pennsylvania | 246 | #42 | #28 |
| Arizona | 132 | #45 | #16 |
| Washington | 119 | #57 | #38 |
| Georgia | 168 | #59 | #39 |
| Louisiana | 66 | #60 | #53 |
| Indiana | 108 | #63 | #55 |
| Virginia | 126 | #67 | #31 |
| Oklahoma | 57 | #68 | #60 |
| Colorado | 87 | #70 | #28 |
| North Carolina | 162 | #70 | #52 |
| Oregon | 50 | #71 | #38 |
| Ohio | 161 | #71 | #47 |
| Wisconsin | 75 | #72 | #52 |
| Utah | 61 | #76 | #55 |
| Michigan | 117 | #76 | #30 |
| Missouri | 77 | #80 | #59 |
| Kansas | 40 | #82 | #48 |
| Minnesota | 71 | #83 | #70 |
| North Dakota | 13 | #86 | #86 |
| Alabama | 57 | #89 | #59 |
| Montana | 13 | #91 | #58 |
| Kentucky | 55 | #91 | #72 |
| Maine | 14 | #92 | #88 |
| Arkansas | 34 | #97 | #71 |
| Nebraska | 25 | #98 | #44 |
| Hawaii | 9 | #104 | #42 |
| South Dakota | 12 | #105 | #64 |
| Tennessee | 84 | #109 | #59 |
| New Hampshire | 13 | #110 | #47 |
| Alaska | 7 | #111 | #44 |
| Mississippi | 26 | #124 | #64 |
| Idaho | 20 | #125 | #95 |
| Iowa | 29 | #143 | #75 |
| West Virginia | 6 | #300 | #61 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,515 | 5,967 | #46 |
| 2024 | — | — | 6,353 | #44 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,404 | 6,277 | #46 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,360 | 6,607 | #44 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,498 | 6,792 | #43 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,334 | 7,037 | #41 |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,990 | 7,725 | #38 |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,926 | 8,048 | #38 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,782 | 8,877 | #33 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,477 | 9,900 | #30 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,505 | 10,664 | #25 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,744 | 11,613 | #21 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,786 | 12,295 | #19 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,848 | 13,228 | #15 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,563 | 14,290 | #11 |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,117 | 15,511 | #10 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,395 | 16,327 | #11 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,159 | 18,417 | #7 |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,824 | 19,639 | #7 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,248 | 19,413 | #9 |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,845 | 19,387 | #8 |
| 2004 | 56 | #2,854 | 19,613 | #11 |
| 2003 | 38 | #3,669 | 20,149 | #10 |
| 2002 | 45 | #3,154 | 19,590 | #12 |
| 2001 | 40 | #3,372 | 19,737 | #11 |
| 2000 | 52 | #2,782 | 19,656 | #17 |
| 1999 | 55 | #2,568 | 19,472 | #18 |
| 1998 | 51 | #2,654 | 19,634 | #19 |
| 1997 | 41 | #2,934 | 20,034 | #18 |
| 1996 | 67 | #2,060 | 20,508 | #19 |
| 1995 | 87 | #1,685 | 20,482 | #19 |
| 1994 | 90 | #1,663 | 21,604 | #18 |
| 1993 | 94 | #1,611 | 21,788 | #19 |
| 1992 | 81 | #1,782 | 23,174 | #19 |
| 1991 | 87 | #1,691 | 24,447 | #18 |
| 1990 | 100 | #1,533 | 25,088 | #15 |
| 1989 | 124 | #1,267 | 24,423 | #16 |
| 1988 | 178 | #945 | 23,644 | #18 |
| 1987 | 213 | #819 | 23,127 | #17 |
| 1986 | 198 | #841 | 21,956 | #19 |
| 1985 | 199 | #819 | 22,104 | #20 |
| 1984 | 158 | #930 | 20,956 | #21 |
| 1983 | 164 | #914 | 19,830 | #22 |
| 1982 | 135 | #1,064 | 19,648 | #21 |
| 1981 | 132 | #1,069 | 18,569 | #23 |
| 1980 | 161 | #926 | 17,604 | #24 |
| 1979 | 154 | #950 | 17,513 | #21 |
| 1978 | 150 | #939 | 16,808 | #20 |
| 1977 | 146 | #948 | 16,804 | #21 |
| 1976 | 140 | #926 | 16,601 | #22 |
| 1975 | 136 | #932 | 16,489 | #21 |
| 1974 | 126 | #975 | 16,391 | #21 |
| 1973 | 145 | #880 | 16,414 | #21 |
| 1972 | 134 | #919 | 17,454 | #22 |
| 1971 | 137 | #938 | 19,223 | #23 |
| 1970 | 143 | #913 | 21,176 | #22 |
| 1969 | 158 | #817 | 20,904 | #20 |
| 1968 | 137 | #879 | 20,231 | #21 |
| 1967 | 157 | #793 | 20,887 | #21 |
| 1966 | 172 | #748 | 20,624 | #22 |
| 1965 | 111 | #983 | 20,326 | #22 |
| 1964 | 121 | #955 | 20,126 | #21 |
| 1963 | 111 | #1,010 | 20,250 | #22 |
| 1962 | 104 | #1,058 | 20,103 | #24 |
| 1961 | 122 | #978 | 20,209 | #25 |
| 1960 | 97 | #1,092 | 19,499 | #25 |
| 1959 | 82 | #1,174 | 17,972 | #26 |
| 1958 | 82 | #1,173 | 17,430 | #27 |
| 1957 | 66 | #1,302 | 17,057 | #27 |
| 1956 | 67 | #1,272 | 15,565 | #30 |
| 1955 | 57 | #1,335 | 14,170 | #31 |
| 1954 | 58 | #1,300 | 13,124 | #32 |
| 1953 | 35 | #1,673 | 11,693 | #32 |
| 1952 | 42 | #1,487 | 11,188 | #34 |
| 1951 | 33 | #1,665 | 9,836 | #34 |
| 1950 | 23 | #2,006 | 8,612 | #36 |
| 1949 | 20 | #2,216 | 8,452 | #36 |
| 1948 | 23 | #2,012 | 7,878 | #41 |
| 1947 | 23 | #2,045 | 8,014 | #41 |
| 1946 | 25 | #1,814 | 6,771 | #44 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,923 | 5,686 | #46 |
| 1944 | 14 | #2,408 | 5,604 | #46 |
| 1943 | 22 | #1,836 | 6,202 | #44 |
| 1942 | 23 | #1,761 | 6,210 | #44 |
| 1941 | 19 | #1,884 | 5,239 | #46 |
| 1940 | 19 | #1,847 | 4,769 | #46 |
| 1939 | 27 | #1,426 | 4,610 | #48 |
| 1938 | 16 | #2,025 | 4,689 | #46 |
| 1937 | 24 | #1,540 | 4,339 | #47 |
| 1936 | 16 | #1,952 | 3,978 | #48 |
| 1935 | 25 | #1,484 | 3,909 | #52 |
| 1934 | 17 | #1,916 | 3,840 | #52 |
| 1933 | 26 | #1,443 | 3,974 | #46 |
| 1932 | 34 | #1,239 | 4,223 | #45 |
| 1931 | 39 | #1,148 | 4,310 | #46 |
| 1930 | 30 | #1,405 | 4,674 | #44 |
| 1929 | 49 | #1,042 | 4,733 | #44 |
| 1928 | 31 | #1,396 | 4,719 | #44 |
| 1927 | 31 | #1,459 | 4,917 | #43 |
| 1926 | 34 | #1,358 | 5,058 | #42 |
| 1925 | 25 | #1,700 | 5,041 | #39 |
| 1924 | 20 | #1,995 | 5,191 | #39 |
| 1923 | 26 | #1,639 | 5,121 | #39 |
| 1922 | 24 | #1,734 | 5,091 | #39 |
| 1921 | 23 | #1,823 | 5,239 | #40 |
| 1920 | 32 | #1,409 | 4,944 | #43 |
| 1919 | 24 | #1,650 | 4,737 | #41 |
| 1918 | 19 | #1,967 | 5,168 | #39 |
| 1917 | 19 | #1,851 | 5,027 | #38 |
| 1916 | 16 | #2,033 | 4,749 | #37 |
| 1915 | 24 | #1,477 | 4,722 | #36 |
| 1914 | 14 | #1,820 | 3,695 | #37 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,345 | 2,781 | #38 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,163 | 2,480 | #37 |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,967 | 1,288 | #35 |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,155 | 980 | #37 |
| 1909 | — | — | 758 | #40 |
| 1908 | — | — | 690 | #41 |
| 1907 | — | — | 593 | #46 |
| 1906 | — | — | 542 | #44 |
| 1905 | — | — | 490 | #48 |
| 1904 | — | — | 422 | #56 |
| 1903 | — | — | 399 | #54 |
| 1902 | — | — | 420 | #54 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,689 | 323 | #62 |
| 1900 | — | — | 406 | #67 |
| 1899 | — | — | 291 | #64 |
| 1898 | — | — | 325 | #65 |
| 1897 | — | — | 249 | #76 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,597 | 276 | #73 |
| 1895 | — | — | 221 | #86 |
| 1894 | — | — | 257 | #77 |
| 1893 | — | — | 220 | #81 |
| 1892 | — | — | 255 | #78 |
| 1891 | — | — | 170 | #96 |
| 1890 | — | — | 189 | #91 |
| 1889 | — | — | 219 | #80 |
| 1888 | — | — | 193 | #93 |
| 1887 | — | — | 153 | #98 |
| 1886 | — | — | 174 | #93 |
| 1885 | — | — | 153 | #95 |
| 1884 | — | — | 179 | #88 |
| 1883 | — | — | 143 | #92 |
| 1882 | — | — | 139 | #105 |
| 1881 | — | — | 128 | #100 |
| 1880 | — | — | 130 | #103 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).