Antonia
Masculine
Antonia is given to both — 2,618 boys and 34,222 girls since 1880. See Antonia as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Mark Antony's daughter outlived everybody. Antonia the Younger was the mother of one emperor, the grandmother of another and the great-grandmother of a third, survived every purge of the Julio-Claudian family, and exposed a conspiracy against Tiberius while she was at it.
How old is the name Antonia?
Antonia first appears in US birth records in 1914 — 111 years ago. The typical Antonia alive today was born around 1976, making them about 49 years old. About 2,200 people named Antonia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Antonia most popular?
Antonia peaked in 1974, reaching #774 nationally. See the whole 1974 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Antonius to Antonia
The story of Antonia
She married Drusus, was widowed young, refused to remarry, and ran one of the largest households in Rome for forty years while the imperial family destroyed itself around her. Claudius was her son and she is said to have thought little of him; Caligula was her grandson and had her, by some accounts, driven to suicide. The name she carried is the plain Latin feminine of the clan name, and every Romance language kept it unchanged — Italian, Spanish and Portuguese all write Antonia exactly as Rome did, which very few Roman names manage.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The Roman clan name has no established meaning. It is probably Etruscan and older than Latin's own records, and the family's claim to descend from a son of Hercules is decoration rather than evidence.
How the name formed
- Antonius
- Antonia
Related forms: Antonia · Antonia · Antonia · Antonia · Antonina
Pronouncing Antonia
an-TOH-nee-uh
Four syllables with the weight on the second. Spanish and Italian say it the same way, which is unusual for a name that crosses languages.
Nicknames for Antonia
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1914
- Most boys named
- 1974108 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #774reached in 1974
- Change vs 2011
- −28.6%5 in 2013, from 7
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Antonia in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Antonia in Italian — same name
- Antonia in Spanish — same name
- Antonia in German — same name
- Antonia in Portuguese — same name
- Antonina in Polish — related form
Antonias among us
people named Antonia are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Antonia sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It is spelled identically in Latin, Italian, Spanish, German and Portuguese.
- Toni is a ready short form and a standing name of its own.
- It has an unbroken run in American records from the first year they were kept, and a documented history two thousand years longer.
- Four syllables is long for American paperwork and the name will be shortened by others.
- Its meaning is genuinely unknown, so books that give one are guessing.
- The spelling is recorded for a small number of boys, though it reads overwhelmingly as a girl's name.
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Frequently asked
- How many Antonias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,200 people named Antonia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Antonia in 2025?
- Antonia is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Antonia with classmates?
- Antonia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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The most-given names starting with A, all years combined.
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