How common is the name Anthony?

1,075,181 people in the United States have the first name Anthony, about 1 in 281. It ranks #23 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

ANTHONY

#23

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
1,075,181
About
1 in 281
This common or more
13.4%
Who bears it

Of the 1,075,181 people named Anthony, 54.1% reported their origin as White, 21.8% as Hispanic or Latino and 17.3% as Black. Virtually all are male (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Anthony peaked in 1990, when 25,188 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1990
Births that year
25,188
In 2025*
5,977 ▼76%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 1,495,156 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Anthony by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #13. The largest share of babies named Anthony, 23.6%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1880s#2321,611
1890s#2442,458
1900s#1745,048
1910s#9135,772
1920s#9050,349
1930s#9842,800
1940s#8865,023
1950s#54137,192
1960s#31204,449
1970s#30176,284
1980s#27213,523
1990s#25216,984
2000s#13192,296
2010s#29112,294
2020s#6339,073
Before 19010.3%
Greatest Generation 1901–275.4%
Silent Generation 1928–455.8%
Baby boom 1946–6418%
Generation X 1965–8019.9%
Millennials 1981–9623.6%
Generation Z 1997–1219.7%
2013 and later7.2%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Anthony is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Anthony has been most common in New Jersey (1.8×), Rhode Island (1.7×), and Nevada (1.7×), and least common in North Dakota (0.44×).

1,481,974 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Anthony

#21 Mark · 1,135,541#22 Andrew · 1,075,513#24 Kevin · 1,015,227#25 Brian · 1,011,020

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Anthony, most common first.

#1,634 Anton · 19,345#2,141 Antony · 12,470#4,302 Antwon · 4,413#5,579 Antoni · 3,046#5,802 Antione · 2,865#6,018 Antone · 2,730#7,876 Anthoney · 1,883#9,318 Antwone · 1,498

Also a last name

As a last name, Anthony ranks #633 of 156,621, with 52,156 people. See Anthony as a last name

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