girls:
113 births since 1970
#5603 (2nd percentile)
boys:
12.4k births since 1958
#1034 (77th percentile)
overall:
12.5k births since 1958
#2353 (70th percentile)
The name Antwan is the #2,353 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 12,524 recorded births since 1958. This represents the 69.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 69.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,034 (77.5% percentile) for all time with 12,411 births since 1958. For girls, it ranks #5,603 (1.9% percentile) for all time with 113 births since 1970.
Antwan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1958 (1958 for boys and 1970 for girls). Birth data for Antwan is available in 65 out of the 66 years between 1958 and 2023 (65 years for boys and 15 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Antwan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Antwan reached its peak popularity in 1980, achieving the 46.3% percentile (ranked #366) with 217 births per million. The name was most common in 1979, with 221 births per million (ranked 46.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2010, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Antwan ranks #861 for boys (5.5% percentile) with 30 births per million, which is 13.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Antwan reached its peak popularity in 1979, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #778) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1979, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1987.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Antwan".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Antwan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 57.9% confident that Antwan is pronounced as AN-TWAHN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AN-twahn, at 23.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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