In 2025, 55 US girls were named Antoinette, making it the 3,002nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 107 places from #2,895 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 57 girls named Antoinette in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #170, reached in 1917. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,333, in 1924. For comparison, it was #2,356 in 2015 and #260 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Antoinette in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 19 babies with the name. In all, 78,789 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 11,590 babies named Antoinette.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 613 US girls were named Antoinette; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 71. In 2025 that was about 1 in 29,223 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Toni (101,762 babies since 1880), Antionette (9,141 babies since 1880) and Antonette (7,803 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Antoniette, Anntoinette and Antonela are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Ann, Netta and Tony.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and French. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.