Antwan
Antwan was given to 50 boys in 2025, #2,606 among boys’ names; 12,630 Americans have been recorded with it since 1958 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 12,000 Americans named Antwan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 22 and 44.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Antwan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Antwan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Antwan is “a male given name from French, equivalent to English Anthony.”
Anglicization of French Antoine. Compare Antoine, Antwon.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Antwan?
#2,606 among boys’ names, 2025
Antwan fell from #1,481 in 2015 to #2,606 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 58.4 to 29.3 per million.
414 babies in 1980, the peak
Antwan peaked in 1980, when 414 babies were given it (403 boys, #404 among boys’ names). The 50 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 50 | #2,606 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 53 | #2,530 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 55 | #2,441 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 61 | #2,326 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 83 | #1,852 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 73 | #1,965 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 90 | #1,737 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 107 | #1,565 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 105 | #1,554 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 109 | #1,534 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 112 | #1,481 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 137 | #1,296 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 155 | #1,162 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 141 | #1,250 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 180 | #1,051 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 222 | #910 | 0.12 |
| 2009 | 225 | #920 | 0.11 |
| 2008 | 238 | #882 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 247 | #853 | 0.12 |
| 2006 | 246 | #827 | 0.12 |
| 2005 | 216 | #849 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 185 | #916 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 200 | #860 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 171 | #938 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 223 | #771 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 248 | #704 | 0.13 |
| 1999 | 218 | #740 | 0.11 |
| 1998 | 228 | #722 | 0.12 |
| 1997 | 208 | #734 | 0.11 |
| 1996 | 211 | #726 | 0.11 |
| 1995 | 194 | #766 | 0.10 |
| 1994 | 225 | #693 | 0.12 |
| 1993 | 225 | #685 | 0.11 |
| 1992 | 285 | #608 | 0.14 |
| 1991 | 339 | #553 | 0.17 |
| 1990 | 345 | #533 | 0.17 |
| 1989 | 373 | #494 | 0.19 |
| 1988 | 355 | #488 | 0.19 |
| 1987 | 353 | #473 | 0.19 |
| 1986 | 364 | #459 | 0.20 |
| 1985 | 363 | #450 | 0.20 |
| 1984 | 373 | #434 | 0.21 |
| 1983 | 364 | #429 | 0.20 |
| 1982 | 401 | #417 | 0.22 |
| 1981 | 355 | #439 | 0.20 |
| 1980 | 403 | #404 | 0.23 |
| 1979 | 396 | #399 | 0.23 |
| 1978 | 316 | #448 | 0.19 |
| 1977 | 288 | #475 | 0.18 |
| 1976 | 278 | #472 | 0.18 |
| 1975 | 230 | #529 | 0.15 |
| 1974 | 197 | #572 | 0.13 |
| 1973 | 193 | #571 | 0.12 |
| 1972 | 134 | #693 | 0.08 |
| 1971 | 91 | #857 | 0.05 |
| 1970 | 74 | #928 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 49 | #1,111 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 34 | #1,314 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 23 | #1,608 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 24 | #1,581 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 18 | #1,857 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 14 | #2,211 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 10 | #2,676 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 13 | #2,281 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 8 | #3,108 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,355 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,572 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Antwan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Antwan has been given almost only to boys: 113 girls in 67 years of records.
Girls and boys named Antwan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Antwan, and how old are they?
12,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 12,630 Americans ever recorded as Antwan. The median Antwan alive today is 36 years old; half are between 22 and 44.
The 2020 Census counted 8,771 people named Antwan (63 women and girls, 8,708 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 11,829 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 45 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,560 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,890 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,340 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,180 |
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 Antwan born?
The states with the most babies named Antwan are Florida, Georgia and Illinois, with 34% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 1,598 | #1,358 | 2.8× |
| Georgia | 980 | #1,105 | 2.7× |
| Illinois | 941 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| North Carolina | 775 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Ohio | 756 | #944 | 1.4× |
| South Carolina | 707 | not ranked | 4.0× |
| Michigan | 536 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Virginia | 473 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| California | 458 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 457 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Antwan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Antwan is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1958 it was given 4.0 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 Antwan 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 25,123 babies since 1880, Antwan is the most given (50% of them). In 2025 it was given to 50 of their 81 babies (62%), 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 Antwan
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 Antwan and names like it
- Compare Antwan and AntwonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sAntwan peaked in 1980.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Antwan since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Antwan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Antwan.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Antwan alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.