Antwan
Masculine
Antwan is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 12,517 boys against 113 girls since 1880.
Antwan respells Antoine, the French of Anthony — a Roman family name the Romans could not explain either.
How old is the name Antwan?
Antwan first appears in US birth records in 1958 — 67 years ago. The typical Antwan alive today was born around 1990, making them about 35 years old. About 12,000 people named Antwan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Antwan most popular?
Antwan peaked in 1979, reaching #399 nationally. Today it ranks #2604, 2,205 places below that high. See the whole 1979 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Antonius to Antwan
The story of Antwan
Antonius was an Etruscan-derived Roman family name whose meaning was already lost in antiquity, and English gained an h from a false Greek guess. French made Antoine, and American families respelled it phonetically as Antwan and Antwon. It appears in the registers in current use.
Meaningscholars disagree
Not established
Through Antoine and Antonius, a Roman gens name of unrecovered and probably Etruscan origin. The h in English Anthony was added by scholars who wrongly linked it to the Greek anthos, 'flower'. The name is documented; its meaning is not.
How the name formed
- Antonius
- Antoine
- Antwan
Related forms: Antoine · Antwon · Anthony
Pronouncing Antwan
ant-WAHN
Two syllables, stress on the second. French Antoine is ahn-TWAHN with a nasal first vowel.
Nicknames for Antwan
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1958
- Most boys named
- 1982401 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #399reached in 1979
- Change vs 2024
- −5.7%50 in 2025, from 53
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Antwan in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Antoine in French — related form
- Antwon in English — spelling variant
- Anthony in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida, Georgia, Ohio.
Antwans among us
people named Antwan are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 34,162 born in 2025 was named Antwan
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Everette test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Antwan's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Everette climbed just as high around 1919, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Everette's path sketches the road Antwan is walking now.
Antwan sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Antwan is headed
Antwan is easing off slowly — about 18% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Antwan beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Antwan in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That the English h comes from a wrong guess is a first-rate fact.
- Twan is available as a short form with real use.
- The end stress gives it a strong rhythm against a front-stressed surname.
- The meaning is genuinely unrecovered.
- Antoine is the standard French spelling.
- It is period-coded to the 1980s and 1990s.
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Frequently asked
- How many Antwans are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 12,000 people named Antwan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Antwan in 2025?
- Antwan ranks #2604 among US boy names in 2025, with 50 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Antwan?
- About 1 in every 34,162 US boys born in 2025 was named Antwan — 50 in all.
- Will my child share the name Antwan with classmates?
- Antwan will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Antwan
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