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Anton vs Antuan

American parents have registered 23,936 Antons since 1880, against 1,407 Antuans. Anton is still ahead, with 132 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Anton against Antuan, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Anton Antuan

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Anton has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1974, when Anton had 180 and Antuan had 37.

Side by side

  Anton Antuan
Total US births 23,9361,407
Most in one year 35747
Babies in 2025 13215
Estimated living today 15,0001,300
Median age today 3434
Peak year 19151981
Best rank 252nd boys1,373rd boys
Rank in 2025 1,388th5,861st
First recorded 18801967
Girls / boys 21 / 23,9150 / 1,407

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Anton and Antuan.