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Ante

Boys' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Ante has been given to 215 babies in the U.S. since 1971. 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 1979, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Ante, 2022

1 in 677,000

Ante 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ante: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ante means

Ante has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Ante

A separate documented entry treats Ante as a form of Anthony. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

Origin, language, and formation

Ante is used in Serbo-Croatian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Anthony and Àntūn.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Ante is pronounced /ǎːnte/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 215 boys were recorded with the name Ante between 1971 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1979; its best national rank was #2,719 in 1973.

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 Ante?

Ante had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 349,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ante 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 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ante. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Antes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ante was born before 1988 — so the typical Ante is around 37 today.

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
28.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
30.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
215
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 28.8% of all recorded uses (62).

Is Ante 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 1979 (15)
Years since peak
46
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,719
1973

Spellings of Ante

Ante is not the most common spelling — Angel is, with 23.7% against Ante's 0.02%.

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.

Where Ante is used

Across 1910–2025, Ante was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,622,949 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ante has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ante around the world

Where Ante 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.

  • France
    1968–1976
    #2,344
    in 1976
  • Canada
    1994–2018
    #2,536
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1957–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ante 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
—
Best rank ever
#2,719
1973
Peak year
1979
15 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
215
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ante

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

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Sibling names for Ante

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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