The name pages

Antonio

The 2025 national count puts Antonio at #176, as settled as a name gets. First recorded 1880, best year 1997, 262,995 bearers across the whole run.

Antonio on the door plaque, from the book's opening page
Antonio complete and glowing, from the book's payoff page
Meaning

What Antonio carries

Antonio · Latin

“inestimable”

Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.

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  • Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
  • Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.

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Popularity

Antonio since 1880

Antonio peaked in 1997 at #75; #176 in 2025.

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United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.

Where it lives

Where Antonio is most common

By share of a state's recorded boys' names, Antonio runs strongest in New Mexico at 0.46% in 2025, then Rhode Island and Nevada.

Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.

Related

Names that sit near Antonio

Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.

Browse: names starting with A · Latin names · all names

Questions

About Antonio

1

How popular is the name Antonio?

The 2025 national count puts Antonio at #176, as settled as a name gets. The chart above draws the whole run since 1880, from the Social Security Administration's public data.

2

What is the recorded meaning of Antonio?

“inestimable” is the meaning our source sets down, of Latin origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).

3

Which names sit near Antonio?

Anthony, Valeria and Camille sit nearest to Antonio on origin, era, syllables and first letter. Put your own names into the sibling matcher for a list scored against them.

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