Antelmo

Boys' name

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Antelmo has been given to 56 babies in the U.S. since 1986. 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 1996, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Antelmo, 2023

1 in 552,000

Antelmo over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Antelmo: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Antelmo means

Antelmo is a given name.

The naming story behind Antelmo

Charlotte M. Yonge’s 1884 History of Christian Names includes the exact spelling Antelmo in its glossary. The entry labels it masculine and points to printed page(s) 290.

The glossary’s abbreviated description reads: “It. Teu. divine helmet”. This is the historical author’s wording, including its language abbreviations and any proposed interpretation. It is presented as historical evidence, not as a verified modern translation. Victorian classifications and root explanations can differ from later linguistic research.

For Antelmo, the current short meaning therefore remains unconfirmed. Establishing its modern etymology requires a current reference that documents the exact form and its relationship to the proposed earlier words.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 56 boys were recorded with the name Antelmo between 1986 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1996; its best national rank was #5,964 in 1986.

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.

How common is Antelmo?

Antelmo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023: 1 in 552,000; 6 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only: 1 in 285,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 382,940 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Antelmo 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 2023 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 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Antelmo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Antelmos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Antelmo was born before 1996 — so the typical Antelmo is around 29 today.

Median birth year: 1996; About 29 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 51.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 37.5%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 56; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 51.8% of all recorded uses (29).

Is Antelmo 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1996 (9)
Years since peak: 29; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 33.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,964; 1986

Spellings of Antelmo

Antelmo is not the most common spelling — Angelo is, with 95.6% against Antelmo's 0.06%.

Angelo95.6%86,106
Anselmo3.1%2,748
Angello0.67%600
Aniello0.65%587
Antelmo0.06%56

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.

Antelmo 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: #5,964; 1986
Peak year: 1996; 9 that year
First recorded: 1986
Last recorded: 2023
All-time count: 56
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Antelmo

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

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Sibling names for Antelmo

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

For a sister

Iman Breann Cinthia Katia Kaela Tristan Lexus Estefania

For a brother

Claudio Dontae Deion Hernan Dangelo Samual Tristin Rashawn

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