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Antonella

#284 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Antonia

Antonella has been given to 10,576 babies in the U.S. since 1954. In 2025 it ranked #284 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 1,333 recorded.

Babies named Antonella, 2025

1 in 3,050

Antonella over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05001K1.5K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Antonella: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Antonia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Antonella means

Antonella is a diminutive of Antonia.

Origin, language, and formation

Antonella is used in Italian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Antonia.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Antonella is pronounced /an.toˈnɛl.la/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10,571 girls were recorded with the name Antonella between 1954 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 1,333 in 2024; its best national rank was #233 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #558 in 2020 to #284 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,019 in 2015 to #284 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Antonella between 2022 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2022; its best national rank was #12,474 in 2022.

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 Antonella?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 3,050
1,087 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 1,480
0.07% of girls
Rank, 2025
#284
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
2,115 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Antonella 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 1003%
School of 50015%

Put another way: gather 2,115 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Antonella. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Antonellas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Antonella was born before 2020 — so the typical Antonella is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
50.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
10,571
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 50.3% of all recorded uses (5,317).

Is Antonella 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
−51
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+274
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+735
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
4.15×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
81.5%
Peak was 2024 (1,333)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#233
2024

Spellings of Antonella

Antonella is the most-used spelling, taking 84.4% of the 12,525 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Antonella is used

Across 2016–2025, Antonella was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 526 girls, against 1 in 1,856 across all states with data. It was least common in Iowa (1 in 20,000).

5190 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 526
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 719
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in 990
  4. 4Connecticut1 in 1,010
  5. 5New York1 in 1,235
  6. 6Nevada1 in 1,333
  7. 7Texas1 in 1,471
  8. 8Maryland1 in 1,587

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.

Geographically, Antonella is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 96% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Antonella around the world

Where Antonella 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
    #1,133
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2018–2025
    #413
    in 2025
  • France
    1953–2025
    #1,108
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #488
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1958–2004
    #700
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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.

Notable people named Antonella

People whose public names include Antonella, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Antonella by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#284
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 274
Best rank ever
#233
2024
Peak year
2024
1,333 that year
First recorded
1954
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
10,571
Count in 2025
1,087

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#12,474
2022
Peak year
2022
5 that year
First recorded
2022
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Antonella

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

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Names with a curve like Antonella

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Antonella, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Antonella

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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