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I like it OK, but for actual use I'd prefer Antonia. Especially since I often see people here in South Africa spelling it Antionette but still pronouncing it as if it was Antoinette. Saffers are historically bad at French, but this defies all logic.

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I was at school with an Antoinette who usually went by the full name. When we were aged about 8 and below, she was sometimes called Anti, one hopes by people who didn't know it was a prefix ... later she was sometimes known by a form of her ln, and when she left school and went to nursing college she became Toni and has retained it. I still think of her as Antoinette and called her that the other day, and she did a double-take!

I think it's a good solid name whether on a young girl or adult woman. My mother knew an Antoinette, she called her Antony often because she couldn't pronounce it right, which I thought was cute.
I think it could make a small comeback but nothing big.

I don't think it'll come back in a big way. It's recognisable though and has plenty of NNs (Annie, Toni, Netta) so I think it's a nice choice for a name.

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Antoinette Zoe
Antoinette Lucy
Antoinette Louise
Antoinette Sophie
Antoinette Claire
Antoinette Melanie
Antoinette Isabel
Antoinette Fleur
Antoinette Sarah
Antoinette Cecilia
Antoinette Celine
Antoinette Elise
Antoinette Diana
Antoinette Adele
Antoinette Phoebe

This message was edited 2/16/2019, 1:36 PM

I like the way it looks and sounds as a sort of indulgent frilly name, but it's very... guillotiney

I doubt it will make a comeback; the ette ending is just not making much headway these days except for Juliette.

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It is an attractive name, though. And Toni is very cute, though if I wanted to use it I would skip Antoinette and just use Toni.

I feel like this name has always subtly been there. In my neck of the woods, it is common among people of Italian descent of all generations but they usually get called "Toni."