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Antigone

Girls' name

Against, compared to, like + birth, offspring

Antigone has been given to 388 babies in the U.S. since 1962. 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 1997, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Antigone, 2024

1 in 478,000

Antigone over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Antigone: meaning, origin, and history

Against, compared to, like + birth, offspring

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Antigone means

Antigone means “against, compared to, like + birth, offspring”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Antigone is used in Greek Mythology and Ancient Greek.

Another recorded pronunciation is /an.ti.ɡó.nɛː/ and /æn.ˈtɪɡ.ə.ni/ for Antigone.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 388 girls were recorded with the name Antigone between 1962 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1997; its best national rank was #4,874 in 1975.

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.

How common is Antigone?

Antigone had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 478,000
7 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 231,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,009 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Antigone sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 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 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Antigone. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Antigones were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Antigone was born before 1995 — so the typical Antigone is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
22.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
37.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
388
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 22.2% of all recorded uses (86).

Is Antigone 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 1997 (16)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,874
1975

Where Antigone is used

Across 1910–2025, Antigone was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,501,280 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Antigone has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Antigone around the world

Where Antigone 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.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2025
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • France
    1939–2002
    #4,748
    in 2002
  • South Australia
    1992–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Antigone by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,874
1975
Peak year
1997
16 that year
First recorded
1962
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
388
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Antigone

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

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Sibling names for Antigone

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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