Antoine

Where Antoine comes from

From French Antoine. Doublet of Anthony.
— Wiktionary's entry for Antoine
  • French
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1743
    Antoine Lavoisier born
    French nobleman and chemist
  2. 1882
    First appearance
    #754 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1900
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry born
    French writer and aviator
  4. 1985
    Peak, #262
    829 babies named Antoine — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1994
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #549.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from French occasionally borrowed from French, mostly in the U.S.
Namesakes
  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · French writer and aviator, 1900–1944
  • Antoine Lavoisier · French nobleman and chemist, 1743–1794
  • Antoine Henri Becquerel · French physicist, 1852–1908
  • Antoine Griezmann · French footballer, born 1991
  • Antoine François Prévost · French novelist, 1697–1763

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.