In 2025, 2,058 US boys were named Antonio, making it the 176th most common boys’ name of the year, up 4 places from #180 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 2,058 boys named Antonio in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #71, reached in 1976. The most boys given the name in a single year was 5,069, in 1997. For comparison, it was #152 in 2015 and #210 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Antonio in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 26 babies with the name. In all, 264,970 US babies have been given the name, 0.7% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 46,791 babies named Antonio.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 22,341 US boys were named Antonio; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 2,561. In 2025 that was about 1 in 830 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Antonio ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #50 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 2 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Anthony (1,495,156 babies since 1880), Tony (254,483 babies since 1880), Toni (101,762 babies since 1880) and Antoine (27,652 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Antonie, Antionio and Antania are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Ant and Tony.