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Anthea

#10,176 in 2025Girls' name

Blossom

Anthea has been given to 839 babies in the U.S. since 1932. In 2025 it ranked #10,176 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1990, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Anthea, 2025

1 in 368,000

Anthea over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anthea: meaning, origin, and history

Blossom

Ancient Greek

What Anthea means

Anthea means “blossom”, associated with ánthē.

Origin, language, and formation

Anthea is used in English. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Anthea comes through Ancient Greek ἄνθη.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Anthea is pronounced /ˈænθiːə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 839 girls were recorded with the name Anthea between 1932 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 20 in 1990; its best national rank was #3,260 in 1959.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,008 in 2020 to #10,176 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,539 in 2015 to #10,176 in 2025.

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 Anthea?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,176
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anthea sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anthea. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Antheas were born

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

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
16.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
31.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
818
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Choose a decade

1980s — 16.4% of all recorded uses (138).

Is Anthea 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
−554
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,168
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−637
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.82×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
45.0%
Peak was 1990 (20)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,260
1959

Spellings of Anthea

Anthea is not the most common spelling — Andrea is, with 80.9% against Anthea's 0.15%.

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 Anthea is used

Across 1910–2025, Anthea was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 663,237 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Anthea has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Anthea around the world

Where Anthea 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1974–1981
    #537
    in 1981
  • Ireland
    1969–1981
    #471
    in 1981
  • France
    1982–2025
    #1,227
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1944–2005
    #775
    in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Anthea by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,176
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,168
Best rank ever
#3,260
1959
Peak year
1990
20 that year
First recorded
1932
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
839
Count in 2025
9

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

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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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