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Antero

#12,156 in 2025Boys' name

Man, through Andreas

Antero has been given to 71 babies in the U.S. since 1965. In 2025 it ranked #12,156 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1991, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Antero, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Antero: meaning, origin, and history

Man, through Andreas

Latin

What Antero means

Antero belongs to the name family reached through Antero → Andreas → Ἀνδρέας. Its meaning is “man”.

Origin, language, and formation

Antero is used in Finnish, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. Its origins include Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Andreas, Andrew and Ἀνδρέας.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Antero is pronounced /ˈɑntero/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 71 boys were recorded with the name Antero between 1965 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1991; its best national rank was #3,547 in 1965.

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 Antero?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,156
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Antero 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 2025 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Antero. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anteros were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Antero was born before 1993 — so the typical Antero is around 32 today.

Median birth year
1993
About 32 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
29.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
32.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
71
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 29.6% of all recorded uses (21).

Is Antero 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
62.5%
Peak was 1991 (8)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,547
1965

Spellings of Antero

Antero is not the most common spelling — Angelo is, with 54.2% against Antero's 0.04%.

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.

Antero around the world

Where Antero 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
    1970–1974
    #1,506
    in 1974
  • South Australia
    1963–1963
    #563
    in 1963

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

Antero by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,156
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#3,547
1965
Peak year
1991
8 that year
First recorded
1965
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
71
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Antero

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

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Sibling names for Antero

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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