Anthony

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Primarily a boy's name · 100% boys

Origin: Russian

Meaning

Anthony, also spelled Antony, is a masculine given name derived from the Antonii, a gens to which Mark Antony belonged. According to Plutarch, the Antonii gens were Heracleidae, being descendants of Anton, a son of Heracles.

From Wikipedia

Anthony first appears in the data in 1955 and has been recorded in 60 different years as a boy's name. Its single biggest year was 1991 with 104 babies (rank #182 that year). It was not in the 2017 data. The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Anthony

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Anthony yields these three numbers โ€” a playful read on the name's character.

3,441
Total babies (all years)
60
Years in the data
104
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time โ€” Boys

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
195537#258
195643#242
195732#275
195845#247
195940#264
196049#243
196148#261
196241#277
196339#290
196458#249
196550#268
196640#304
196743#292
196850#272
196952#275
197062#250
197145#299
197249#279
197348#270
197438#308
197541#293
197649#259
197735#319
197838#301
197946#274
198027#383
198134#348
198245#288
198341#307
198432#361
198561#244
198658#258
198753#284
198860#258
198970#232
199079#228
1991104#182
199285#212
199398#194
199485#219
199580#223
199676#239
199796#194
199889#220
199992#211
200090#212
200179#236
200294#202
200382#229
200488#208
200570#252
200672#231
200750#281
200852#279
200946#307
201050#267
201155#250
201252#254
201333#336
201445#279