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Antwan

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Antwan is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 52 births. Its best rank was 399th, in 1979.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
520.00% of boys
Peak year
1980403 births
Best rank
#399in 1979
Since 1958
12,466people given the name
Babies named Antwan, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

12,466 boys have been named Antwan in the United States since 1958, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1980, with 403 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1990, and the 1980s alone account for 30%. It has spent 41 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Antwan
1950s6
1960s200
1970s2,197
1980s3,704
1990s2,478
2000s2,199
2010s1,358
2020s324

In 1980, its biggest year

Antwan was the 404th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1980 were Michael, Christopher, Jason, David and James. See all of 1980.

Names that rose and fell with Antwan

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.