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Antonette

Girls' name

Diminutive of Antonia

Antonette has been given to 7,803 babies in the U.S. since 1883. 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 1917, with 152 recorded.

Babies named Antonette, 2023

1 in 552,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Antonette: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Antonia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Antonette means

Antonette is a diminutive of Antonia.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Antonette is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˌæn.tə.ˈnɛt/ for Antonette.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Antonia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,803 girls were recorded with the name Antonette between 1883 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 152 in 1917; its best national rank was #531 in 1915.

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 Antonette?

Antonette had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 552,000
6 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 267,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
382,940 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Antonette 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 2023 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 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Antonette. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Antonettes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Antonette was born before 1954 — so the typical Antonette is around 71 today.

Median birth year
1954
About 71 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
14.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
4,214
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1920s — 14.3% of all recorded uses (1,114).

Is Antonette 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 1917 (152)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#531
1915

Spellings of Antonette

Antonette is not the most common spelling — Annette is, with 61.8% against Antonette's 2.8%.

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 Antonette is used

Across 1910–2025, Antonette was most concentrated in Rhode Island — about 1 in 7,692 girls, against 1 in 24,009 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

013 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Rhode Island1 in 7,692
  2. 2New York1 in 11,111
  3. 3Illinois1 in 12,500
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 14,286
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in 16,667
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 16,667
  7. 7New Mexico1 in 16,667
  8. 8California1 in 20,000

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. Antonette has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Antonette around the world

Where Antonette 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
    1996–1996
    #3,795
    in 1996
  • Ireland
    1964–1973
    #508
    in 1973
  • Canada
    1997–1997
    #2,176
    in 1997
  • South Australia
    1951–2007
    #803
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, 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. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Antonette

People whose public names include Antonette, 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.

Antonette in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Antonette. Linked forms have their own page here.

AntoniaTonetteAntonettaAnthonetteAntionetteAntoinetteAntonietteAntonet

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Antonette 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
—
Best rank ever
#531
1915
Peak year
1917
152 that year
First recorded
1883
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
7,803
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Antonette

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

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Names with a curve like Antonette

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

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Sibling names for Antonette

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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