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Antal

Boys' name

English equivalent of Anthony

Antal has been given to 8 babies in the U.S. since 1967. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1967, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Antal, 1967

1 in 424,000

Antal over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Antal: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Anthony

Latin

What Antal means

Antal is a English equivalent of Anthony.

Origin, language, and formation

Antal is used in Hungarian. Its origins include Latin.

Antal comes through Latin Antonius.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Anthony.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hungarian, Antal is pronounced [ˈɒntɒl].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8 boys were recorded with the name Antal between 1967 and 1967. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1967; its best national rank was #2,995 in 1967.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Antal?

Antal had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1967, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1967
1 in 424,000
8 of 3,394,772 births
Among boys only
1 in 218,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1967
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
294,136 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Antal sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1967 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 294,136 children born in 1967 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Antal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Antals were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Antal was born before 1967 — so the typical Antal is around 58 today.

Median birth year
1967
About 58 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
8
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1960s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (8).

Is Antal rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1967 (8)
Years since peak
58
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#2,995
1967

Spellings of Antal

Antal is not the most common spelling — Angel is, with 61.9% against Antal's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Antal around the world

Where Antal ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1955–1972
    #479
    in 1972

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Antal by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,995
1967
Peak year
1967
8 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
1967
All-time count
8
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Antal

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AnteoAntreAntvanAntrelAntyonAntownAntwinAntroyAntrezAnthymAnthnyAntaunAntimoAnteausAntwanaAnteroMitalAnthnoyAntonneCoastalAnthoryAnttwanAntwonnAntyone

Sibling names for Antal

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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