Antonius is a male first name.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Antonius in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Antonius in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Antonius by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Antonius ranks at #6,544. That means there are 6,543 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Antonius. Boys named Antonius have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 1,961 Antonius ranked higher than ever in 1970. By comparison, there have been 87 years in which the first name Antonius has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 1981. In general, parents name their sons Antonius only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Antonius was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Antonius continues to be a precious jewel: 5 newborns were named Antonius that year, ranking #10,408 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Antonius, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is a very popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 9.0% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter J is more common for boys' names.
With eight letters, the name Antonius is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 9.0% of all boys' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the boys' names that start with an A, Anthony is the most common.
If your name is Antonius 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 Antonius, you can simply say:
Apple
Nut
Tiger
Orange
Nut
Igloo
Unicorn
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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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.
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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. Antonius sounds like this:
