Meaning not yet researched.
Antwan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 50 in 2025. Its best rank was #399 in 1979.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #399 in 1979; #2,606 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Antwan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,606 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1979, at #399.
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Antwan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 50 boys in 2025. Peak: #399 in 1979 · most boys in one year: 403 (1980).
In 2025, 50 US boys were named Antwan, making it the 2,606th most common boys’ name of the year, down 76 places from #2,530 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 53 boys named Antwan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #399, reached in 1979. The most boys given the name in a single year was 403, in 1980. For comparison, it was #1,481 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Antwan in 67 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1958 with 6 babies. In all, 12,630 US babies have been given the name, 0.9% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 3,749 babies named Antwan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 786 US boys were named Antwan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 109. In 2025 that was about 1 in 34,162 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Antwan ranked highest in Ohio in 2025, at #944 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Antwon (6,393 babies since 1880), Antwain (2,364 babies since 1880) and Antwone (2,112 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Antwaun, Antwane and Antwuan are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Antwaun (1,474), Antwane (887), Antwuan (794), Antwann (564), Antwine (494), Antwaine (328), Antwoin (312), Antwion (130), Antwian (70), Antwyne (64), Antwun (40), Antwaan (30), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Antwan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 8 | #944 | #841 |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,105 | #914 |
| Florida | 8 | #1,358 | #719 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 50 | #2,606 |
| 2024 | — | — | 53 | #2,530 |
| 2023 | — | — | 55 | #2,442 |
| 2022 | — | — | 61 | #2,327 |
| 2021 | — | — | 83 | #1,853 |
| 2020 | — | — | 73 | #1,965 |
| 2019 | — | — | 90 | #1,737 |
| 2018 | — | — | 107 | #1,565 |
| 2017 | — | — | 105 | #1,554 |
| 2016 | — | — | 109 | #1,534 |
| 2015 | — | — | 112 | #1,481 |
| 2014 | — | — | 137 | #1,296 |
| 2013 | — | — | 155 | #1,162 |
| 2012 | — | — | 141 | #1,250 |
| 2011 | — | — | 180 | #1,051 |
| 2010 | — | — | 222 | #910 |
| 2009 | — | — | 225 | #920 |
| 2008 | — | — | 238 | #882 |
| 2007 | — | — | 247 | #853 |
| 2006 | — | — | 246 | #827 |
| 2005 | — | — | 216 | #849 |
| 2004 | — | — | 185 | #917 |
| 2003 | — | — | 200 | #861 |
| 2002 | — | — | 171 | #939 |
| 2001 | — | — | 223 | #772 |
| 2000 | — | — | 248 | #705 |
| 1999 | — | — | 218 | #742 |
| 1998 | — | — | 228 | #722 |
| 1997 | — | — | 208 | #735 |
| 1996 | — | — | 211 | #727 |
| 1995 | — | — | 194 | #769 |
| 1994 | — | — | 225 | #694 |
| 1993 | — | — | 225 | #686 |
| 1992 | — | — | 285 | #610 |
| 1991 | — | — | 339 | #553 |
| 1990 | — | — | 345 | #534 |
| 1989 | — | — | 373 | #495 |
| 1988 | — | — | 355 | #488 |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,922 | 353 | #473 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,622 | 364 | #459 |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,781 | 363 | #450 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,531 | 373 | #434 |
| 1983 | — | — | 364 | #429 |
| 1982 | — | — | 401 | #417 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,592 | 355 | #439 |
| 1980 | 11 | #5,933 | 403 | #404 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,110 | 396 | #399 |
| 1978 | 10 | #5,982 | 316 | #448 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,600 | 288 | #475 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,363 | 278 | #472 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,041 | 230 | #529 |
| 1974 | 7 | #6,943 | 197 | #572 |
| 1973 | — | — | 193 | #571 |
| 1972 | 8 | #5,993 | 134 | #693 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,648 | 91 | #857 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,047 | 74 | #928 |
| 1969 | — | — | 49 | #1,111 |
| 1968 | — | — | 34 | #1,314 |
| 1967 | — | — | 23 | #1,609 |
| 1966 | — | — | 24 | #1,582 |
| 1965 | — | — | 18 | #1,858 |
| 1964 | — | — | 14 | #2,212 |
| 1963 | — | — | 10 | #2,677 |
| 1962 | — | — | 13 | #2,282 |
| 1961 | — | — | 8 | #3,109 |
| 1960 | — | — | 7 | #3,356 |
| 1958 | — | — | 6 | #3,573 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).