Antonia is an ancient Roman first name for girls, that is based on the family name Antonius. It is of unknown origin and later developed into a first name. Antonia is a common name in many European languages.
Antonia is a female first name. In some cases it's also given to boys.
Antonia is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,012 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,011 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 28,023 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Antonia. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Antonia is an ancient Roman first name for girls, that is based on the family name Antonius. It is of unknown origin and later developed into a first name. Antonia is a common name in many European languages.
Antonia also has... a long tradition of use in the US, though it never was a really popular name.
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When you hear the name Antonia, you might first think of a woman or a girl. But did you know that there are also places with the name Antonia? Are you also called Antonia? Maybe one day you will visit the places that are named just like you...
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Antonia annualy. This means that there have been girls named Antonia who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Antonia have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Antonia even more than any other time: in 1882, it holds its present record of rank #329 in the list of the most popular girls' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Antonia was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Antonia has never been ranked higher than #329. In 2022, she rivaled the 1,124 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 193 girls named Antonia were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Antonia were born, there have been 342 newborns who received this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.
With seven letters, the name Antonia has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.
If your name is Antonia and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Antonia, you can simply say:
Apple
Nut
Tiger
Orange
Nut
Igloo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Antonia
Antonia
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
N
T
O
N
I
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
A
N
T
O
N
I
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Antonia sounds like this:
