girls:
21 births since 1973
#5695 (0th percentile)
boys:
23.7k births since 1880
#747 (84th percentile)
overall:
23.7k births since 1880
#1652 (79th percentile)
The name Anton is the #1,652 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 23,676 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 78.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 78.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #747 (83.7% percentile) for all time with 23,655 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,695 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 21 births since 1973.
Anton has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1973 for girls).
The name Anton has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Anton reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 52.0% percentile (ranked #242) with 405 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 650 births per million (ranked 34.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Anton ranks #794 for boys (12.9% percentile) with 67 births per million, which is 10.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Anton reached its peak popularity in 1973, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #737) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1986.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Anton".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Anton. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 35.2% confident that Anton is pronounced as AN-tahn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AN-tuhn, at 31.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like AE1 N T AA0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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