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Antwan

#2,606 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Antoine

Antwan has been given to 12,630 babies in the U.S. since 1958. In 2025 it ranked #2,606 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1980, with 403 recorded.

Babies named Antwan, 2025

1 in 66,300

Antwan over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Antwan: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Antoine

French

What Antwan means

Antwan is a variant of Antoine.

Origin, language, and formation

Antwan is used in English. Its origins include French.

Antwan comes through French Antoine.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Antoine and Anthony.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 12,517 boys were recorded with the name Antwan between 1958 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 403 in 1980; its best national rank was #399 in 1979.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,965 in 2020 to #2,606 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,481 in 2015 to #2,606 in 2025.

In the United States, 113 girls were recorded with the name Antwan between 1970 and 1987. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1979; its best national rank was #5,109 in 1979.

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 Antwan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 66,300
50 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 34,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,606
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
45,959 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Antwan 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 2025 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 45,959 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Antwan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Antwans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Antwan was born before 1990 — so the typical Antwan is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
29.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
29.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
12,517
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 29.6% of all recorded uses (3,704).

Is Antwan 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
−76
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−641
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,125
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.45×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
12.4%
Peak was 1980 (403)
Years since peak
45
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#399
1979

Spellings of Antwan

Antwan is not the most common spelling — Anton is, with 39.1% against Antwan's 20.5%.

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.

Where Antwan is used

Across 2016–2025, Antwan was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 7,143 boys, against 1 in 27,055 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

014 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Carolina1 in 7,143
  2. 2Florida1 in 8,333
  3. 3Georgia1 in 10,000
  4. 4Ohio1 in 12,500
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 16,667
  6. 6Alabama1 in 20,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 25,000
  8. 8Maryland1 in 25,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.

Antwan around the world

Where Antwan 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
    2001–2011
    #4,647
    in 2011
  • Canada
    2005–2010
    #2,163
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Antwan

People whose public names include Antwan, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Antwan in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Antwan. Linked forms have their own page here.

Antawn

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Antwan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,606
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 641
Best rank ever
#399
1979
Peak year
1980
403 that year
First recorded
1958
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
12,517
Count in 2025
50

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,109
1979
Peak year
1979
13 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
1987
All-time count
113
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Antwan

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

AntonyAntwonAntoneAntonAntoineAntoniAntioneAntuanAntronAntawanAntwainAntwoneAntwaunAntowanJuwanAntoninoAnthoniAntwaneRowanMarwanAntonieAntoniaAntiwanAntonio

Names with a curve like Antwan

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Antwan, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

JamelKristoferJamarBrentonKoreyDerickKoryKaseyJerrodDerikArronDejuan

Sibling names for Antwan

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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