Girls' name · peaked in 1914
Antoinette name popularity since 1925
61,021 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Antoinette. Half of them were born in 1960 or earlier, so the typical Antoinette is about 66 years old in 2026. Antoinette peaked in 1914 as the #170 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.
Key facts
- US babies since 1925
- 61,021
- Named Antoinette, 1925–2025
- Peak year
- 1914
- #170 for girls that year
- In 2025
- Not top 1,000
- #3,002 for girls in 2025
- Girls / boys
- 99.9% girls
- 60,953 girls · 68 boys
- Most popular in
- District of Columbia
- 3.17× its national share
Peak year is the year Antoinette made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.
Antoinette births per year, 1925–2025
The biggest year on this chart was 1925. Measured as a share of all babies, Antoinette peaked earlier, in 1914.
- Steepest fall: Between 1998 and 2003, Antoinette's share of baby girls fell by 56%, from 1 in 6,200 to 1 in 14,200.
Shaded on the chart. This compares Antoinette's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Antoinette.
Decade by decade
Babies named Antoinette in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).
| Decade | Girls | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1925–29 | 5,327 | 12 | – |
| 1930s | 7,384 | 10 | #249 |
| 1940s | 8,244 | 0 | #249 |
| 1950s | 9,045 | 0 | #299 |
| 1960s | 9,938 | 20 | #273 |
| 1970s | 7,204 | 11 | #341 |
| 1980s | 6,931 | 15 | #340 |
| 1990s | 4,286 | 0 | #611 |
| 2000s | 1,478 | 0 | #1,417 |
| 2010s | 754 | 0 | #2,356 |
| 2020–25 | 362 | 0 | #3,002 |
Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000.
Generation fingerprint
29.0% of babies named Antoinette from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Baby Boom years (1946–1964). The full split by generation:
Where Antoinette is most popular
The index compares Antoinette's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Antoinette.
| State | Index | Babies |
|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 3.17× | 840 |
| New York | 2.80× | 12,199 |
| New Jersey | 2.29× | 3,619 |
| New Mexico | 2.11× | 669 |
| Pennsylvania | 1.97× | 5,753 |
Other spellings
Spellings that sound like Antoinette and were given to at least 1,000 girls from 1925 to 2025, with the year each one was most popular.
| Spelling | Girls | Peak year |
|---|---|---|
| Antoinette (this page) | 60,953 | 1914 |
| Antionette | 8,416 | 1971 |
| Antonette | 5,823 | 1915 |
Names with a similar story
Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Antoinette's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Antoinette.
Names from the same era
Other common names that peaked within two years of Antoinette (1914).
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data