Antimo

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Antimo has been given to 16 babies in the U.S. since 1924. 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 1940, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Antimo, 1940

1 in 384,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Antimo: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Antimo means

Antimo is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Antimo is used in Italian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 16 boys were recorded with the name Antimo between 1924 and 1940. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1940; its best national rank was #3,153 in 1940.

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 Antimo?

Antimo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1940, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1940: 1 in 384,000; 6 of 2,302,666 births
Among boys only: 1 in 193,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1940: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 266,016 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Antimo 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 1940 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 266,016 children born in 1940 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Antimo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Antimos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Antimo was born before 1939 — so the typical Antimo is around 86 today.

Median birth year: 1939; About 86 years old
Biggest decade: 1940s; 37.5% 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

1940s — 37.5% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Antimo 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 1940 (6)
Years since peak: 85; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,153; 1940

Spellings of Antimo

Antimo is not the most common spelling — Santino is, with 96.3% against Antimo's 0.11%.

Santino96.3%13,624
Antoino3.6%506
Antimo0.11%16

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.

Antimo around the world

Where Antimo 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.

South Australia
1961–1965
#574
in 1965

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Antimo 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: #3,153; 1940
Peak year: 1940; 6 that year
First recorded: 1924
Last recorded: 1940
All-time count: 16
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Antimo

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

Antaun Anthny Antero Antyon Antown Antrel Anthoy Antavis Antvan Antiona Antwun Antonne Antwand Antorio Antwin Antroy Antrez Anthym Anthem Antoan Antawon Antohny Antwaan Anthuan

Sibling names for Antimo

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

Nedra Toby Jerilyn Carolynn Georgianna Judie Carroll Freddie

For a brother

Errol Sherwood Jerold Gail Rayford Ned Carol Wendell

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