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How popular is the name Anthony?

Births per year, rank history and how many Anthonies are alive today.

Anthony (male) sits just outside the top 100 boys' names in England and Wales, ranked 239th in 2025 with 206 babies given the name. The name peaked in 1944, when around 11,700 babies were given the name, the 6th most popular that year. It has declined since 1944; the 2025 figure is roughly 2% of its peak. Numbers have been falling in recent years. At least 450,000 babies have been named Anthony in England and Wales since 1904. Figures before 1996 are estimates. Common short forms of Anthony include Tony.

The Anthony you are most likely to meet is around 62 years old. Half of all Anthonies born in England and Wales are between 51 and 76, and there are at least 320,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's roughly a 65% chance that at least one of them will be called Anthony.

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Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.