Anton
Anton was given to 132 boys in 2025, #1,389 among boys’ names; 23,936 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 14,600 Americans named Anton and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (61% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 20 and 51.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Anton by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Anton mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Anton is “a male given name from Latin.”
Also “a transliteration of the Bulgarian, Belarusian, Russian, or Ukrainian male given name Анто́н (Antón).”
Borrowed from German Anton and from other northern European languages. Doublet of Anthony.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Anton?
#1,389 among boys’ names, 2025
Anton fell from #967 in 2015 to #1,389 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.11 to 0.08 per 1,000.
357 babies in 1915, the peak
Anton peaked in 1915, when 357 boys were given it, #252 among boys’ names. The 132 births of 2025 are 37% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 132 | #1,389 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 122 | #1,481 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 123 | #1,466 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 133 | #1,394 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 162 | #1,198 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 150 | #1,240 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 172 | #1,132 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 179 | #1,095 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 207 | #987 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 205 | #993 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 214 | #967 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 241 | #893 | 0.13 |
| 2013 | 191 | #1,020 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 204 | #979 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 192 | #1,009 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 193 | #1,012 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 205 | #973 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 259 | #840 | 0.13 |
| 2007 | 252 | #844 | 0.12 |
| 2006 | 301 | #718 | 0.15 |
| 2005 | 268 | #749 | 0.13 |
| 2004 | 244 | #754 | 0.12 |
| 2003 | 252 | #726 | 0.13 |
| 2002 | 290 | #651 | 0.15 |
| 2001 | 258 | #695 | 0.13 |
| 2000 | 251 | #700 | 0.13 |
| 1999 | 252 | #669 | 0.13 |
| 1998 | 253 | #673 | 0.13 |
| 1997 | 220 | #716 | 0.12 |
| 1996 | 217 | #721 | 0.11 |
| 1995 | 332 | #561 | 0.17 |
| 1994 | 317 | #581 | 0.16 |
| 1993 | 195 | #746 | 0.10 |
| 1992 | 224 | #690 | 0.11 |
| 1991 | 232 | #661 | 0.11 |
| 1990 | 277 | #601 | 0.13 |
| 1989 | 219 | #671 | 0.11 |
| 1988 | 232 | #620 | 0.12 |
| 1987 | 216 | #618 | 0.12 |
| 1986 | 217 | #604 | 0.12 |
| 1985 | 226 | #581 | 0.12 |
| 1984 | 227 | #565 | 0.13 |
| 1983 | 268 | #513 | 0.15 |
| 1982 | 242 | #556 | 0.13 |
| 1981 | 234 | #558 | 0.13 |
| 1980 | 286 | #498 | 0.16 |
| 1979 | 303 | #472 | 0.18 |
| 1978 | 190 | #604 | 0.12 |
| 1977 | 176 | #639 | 0.11 |
| 1976 | 189 | #591 | 0.12 |
| 1975 | 236 | #524 | 0.15 |
| 1974 | 180 | #596 | 0.11 |
| 1973 | 200 | #562 | 0.13 |
| 1972 | 212 | #546 | 0.13 |
| 1971 | 194 | #592 | 0.11 |
| 1970 | 209 | #559 | 0.11 |
| 1969 | 214 | #537 | 0.12 |
| 1968 | 184 | #559 | 0.11 |
| 1967 | 182 | #552 | 0.10 |
| 1966 | 125 | #660 | 0.07 |
| 1965 | 113 | #697 | 0.06 |
| 1964 | 152 | #629 | 0.08 |
| 1963 | 158 | #620 | 0.08 |
| 1962 | 139 | #657 | 0.07 |
| 1961 | 117 | #707 | 0.06 |
| 1960 | 152 | #630 | 0.07 |
| 1959 | 142 | #643 | 0.07 |
| 1958 | 127 | #674 | 0.06 |
| 1957 | 135 | #658 | 0.06 |
| 1956 | 123 | #678 | 0.06 |
| 1955 | 148 | #607 | 0.07 |
| 1954 | 121 | #658 | 0.06 |
| 1953 | 108 | #685 | 0.05 |
| 1952 | 134 | #607 | 0.07 |
| 1951 | 123 | #634 | 0.07 |
| 1950 | 123 | #620 | 0.07 |
| 1949 | 108 | #660 | 0.06 |
| 1948 | 92 | #696 | 0.05 |
| 1947 | 120 | #624 | 0.07 |
| 1946 | 117 | #593 | 0.07 |
| 1945 | 113 | #568 | 0.08 |
| 1944 | 119 | #554 | 0.09 |
| 1943 | 129 | #557 | 0.09 |
| 1942 | 106 | #612 | 0.08 |
| 1941 | 117 | #553 | 0.10 |
| 1940 | 106 | #576 | 0.09 |
| 1939 | 106 | #556 | 0.10 |
| 1938 | 133 | #506 | 0.12 |
| 1937 | 124 | #517 | 0.12 |
| 1936 | 107 | #553 | 0.10 |
| 1935 | 104 | #566 | 0.10 |
| 1934 | 112 | #557 | 0.11 |
| 1933 | 139 | #477 | 0.14 |
| 1932 | 137 | #490 | 0.13 |
| 1931 | 151 | #459 | 0.15 |
| 1930 | 145 | #494 | 0.13 |
| 1929 | 155 | #472 | 0.14 |
| 1928 | 163 | #479 | 0.15 |
| 1927 | 165 | #471 | 0.15 |
| 1926 | 192 | #436 | 0.17 |
| 1925 | 183 | #444 | 0.16 |
| 1924 | 202 | #430 | 0.18 |
| 1923 | 223 | #399 | 0.20 |
| 1922 | 245 | #385 | 0.23 |
| 1921 | 261 | #375 | 0.24 |
| 1920 | 260 | #372 | 0.24 |
| 1919 | 326 | #303 | 0.33 |
| 1918 | 314 | #321 | 0.31 |
| 1917 | 343 | #277 | 0.37 |
| 1916 | 334 | #279 | 0.38 |
| 1915 | 357 | #252 | 0.42 |
| 1914 | 286 | #255 | 0.44 |
| 1913 | 216 | #259 | 0.42 |
| 1912 | 159 | #283 | 0.37 |
| 1911 | 77 | #305 | 0.34 |
| 1910 | 74 | #283 | 0.38 |
| 1909 | 61 | #289 | 0.37 |
| 1908 | 63 | #269 | 0.41 |
| 1907 | 52 | #294 | 0.35 |
| 1906 | 44 | #309 | 0.33 |
| 1905 | 55 | #266 | 0.42 |
| 1904 | 45 | #286 | 0.35 |
| 1903 | 56 | #249 | 0.47 |
| 1902 | 53 | #254 | 0.43 |
| 1901 | 50 | #244 | 0.47 |
| 1900 | 58 | #269 | 0.39 |
| 1899 | 52 | #231 | 0.49 |
| 1898 | 51 | #245 | 0.42 |
| 1897 | 43 | #272 | 0.38 |
| 1896 | 46 | #265 | 0.38 |
| 1895 | 63 | #218 | 0.54 |
| 1894 | 64 | #209 | 0.55 |
| 1893 | 75 | #193 | 0.67 |
| 1892 | 71 | #205 | 0.58 |
| 1891 | 51 | #223 | 0.50 |
| 1890 | 73 | #183 | 0.66 |
| 1889 | 74 | #182 | 0.67 |
| 1888 | 72 | #204 | 0.60 |
| 1887 | 67 | #185 | 0.66 |
| 1886 | 62 | #213 | 0.56 |
| 1885 | 74 | #176 | 0.69 |
| 1884 | 64 | #206 | 0.56 |
| 1883 | 63 | #185 | 0.60 |
| 1882 | 64 | #200 | 0.56 |
| 1881 | 57 | #197 | 0.57 |
| 1880 | 77 | #171 | 0.70 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Anton a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Anton has been given almost only to boys: 21 girls in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Anton: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Anton, and how old are they?
14,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 61% of the 23,936 Americans ever recorded as Anton. The median Anton alive today is 35 years old; half are between 20 and 51.
The 2020 Census counted 19,345 people named Anton (63 women and girls, 19,282 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 14,621 born in the U.S. The Census count is 32% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Anton rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 409 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,630 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,840 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,700 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,830 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,210 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Anton born?
The states with the most babies named Anton are Illinois, New York and California, with 37% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 2,550 | #1,031 | 2.3× |
| New York | 1,940 | #1,305 | 1.1× |
| California | 1,769 | #1,154 | 0.8× |
| Wisconsin | 1,347 | #573 | 2.8× |
| Texas | 1,146 | #2,594 | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 1,105 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 833 | #1,275 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 778 | #919 | 0.6× |
| Minnesota | 766 | #815 | 1.7× |
| Florida | 673 | #1,196 | 0.9× |
Where Anton is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Anton is most over-represented in North Dakota: since 1910 it was given 6.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Anton with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 26,225 babies since 1880, Anton is the most given (91% of them). In 2025 it was given to 132 of their 147 babies (90%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Anton
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Anton and names like it
- Compare Anton and AntuanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sAnton peaked in 1915.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Anton since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Anton: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1915The year the most babies were named Anton.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Anton alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.