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Antoine vs Antwon

American parents have registered 27,652 Antoines since 1880, against 6,393 Antwons. Antoine is still ahead, with 95 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Antoine against Antwon, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Antoine Antwon

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

Antoine has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1882 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2013, when Antoine had 211 and Antwon had 97.

Side by side

  Antoine Antwon
Total US births 27,6526,393
Most in one year 840228
Babies in 2025 9518
Estimated living today 25,0006,100
Median age today 3933
Peak year 19851990
Best rank 262nd boys669th boys
Rank in 2025 1,708th5,208th
First recorded 18821958
Girls / boys 364 / 27,2885 / 6,388

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Antoines alive today are over 39; half the Antwons are over 33. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Antoine Antwon
England and Wales 4419

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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