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Anteo

Boys' name

From Ancient Greek Ἀνταῖος; literal meaning unconfirmed

Anteo has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1927. 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 1927, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Anteo, 1927

1 in 464,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anteo: meaning, origin, and history

From Ancient Greek Ἀνταῖος; literal meaning unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Anteo means

Anteo is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Anteo is used in Italian.

Anteo comes through Ancient Greek Ἀνταῖος.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Anteo is pronounced /anˈtɛ.o/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Anteo between 1927 and 1927. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1927; its best national rank was #4,229 in 1927.

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.

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How common is Anteo?

Anteo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1927, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1927
1 in 464,000
5 of 2,319,281 births
Among boys only
1 in 225,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1927
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
321,522 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anteo 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 1927 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 321,522 children born in 1927 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anteo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anteos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anteo was born before 1927 — so the typical Anteo is around 98 today.

Median birth year
1927
About 98 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Anteo 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 1927 (5)
Years since peak
98
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#4,229
1927

Spellings of Anteo

Anteo is not the most common spelling — Angel is, with 42.8% against Anteo'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.

Anteo around the world

Where Anteo 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
    1927–2013
    #5,943
    in 2013

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Anteo 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
#4,229
1927
Peak year
1927
5 that year
First recorded
1927
Last recorded
1927
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Anteo

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

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Sibling names for Anteo

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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