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Anthon

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; German origin

Anthon has been given to 406 babies in the U.S. since 1916. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1973, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Anthon, 2023

1 in 552,000

Anthon over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anthon: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; German origin

German

What Anthon means

Anthon is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Anthon is used in English. Its origins include German.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 406 boys were recorded with the name Anthon between 1916 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1973; its best national rank was #2,608 in 1973.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Anthon?

Anthon had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 552,000
6 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
382,940 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anthon sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anthon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anthons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anthon was born before 1979 — so the typical Anthon is around 46 today.

Median birth year
1979
About 46 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
20.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
21.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
342
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 20.9% of all recorded uses (85).

Is Anthon rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1973 (14)
Years since peak
52
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,608
1973

Spellings of Anthon

Anthon is not the most common spelling — Anthony is, with 90.6% against Anthon's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Anthon around the world

Where Anthon ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1995–2024
    #4,362
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2017–2017
    #2,944
    in 2017

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Anthon by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,608
1973
Peak year
1973
14 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
406
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Anthon

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Anthon

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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