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Anthonia

Girls' name

Variant of Antonia

Anthonia has been given to 191 babies in the U.S. since 1923. 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 1992, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Anthonia, 2018

1 in 586,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anthonia: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Antonia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Anthonia means

Anthonia is a variant of Antonia.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

A variant of Antonia, after Anthony. By surface analysis, Anthony + -ia.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Anthonia (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Anthonia is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Antonia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 191 girls were recorded with the name Anthonia between 1923 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1992; its best national rank was #5,003 in 1923.

How common is Anthonia?

Anthonia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 586,000
6 of 3,516,853 births
Among girls only
1 in 283,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
406,284 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anthonia 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 2018 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 406,284 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anthonia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anthonias were born

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

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
40.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
59.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
186
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 40.3% of all recorded uses (77).

Is Anthonia 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 1992 (12)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,003
1923

Spellings of Anthonia

Anthonia is not the most common spelling — Antonia is, with 73.9% against Anthonia's 0.41%.

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.

Anthonia around the world

Where Anthonia 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
  • France
    1990–2013
    #7,281
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    1952–1969
    #731
    in 1969

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

Anthonia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#5,003
1923
Peak year
1992
12 that year
First recorded
1923
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
191
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Anthonia

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

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Sibling names for Anthonia

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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