Antigone — #12339 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Antigone

The Social Security Administration has registered 388 babies named Antigone between 1962 and 2024, spanning 63 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Antigone currently holds the #12339 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1997, when 16 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Antigone performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 86 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Antigone shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Antigone in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Antigone in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 388 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.