Anton
Anton is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 122 births. Its best rank was 171st, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1220.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 1915357 births
- Best rank
- #171in 1880
- Since 1880
- 23,783people given the name
The story in the numbers
23,783 boys have been named Anton in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1915, with 357 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1971, and the 2000s alone account for 11%. It has spent 135 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Anton | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 674 | |
| 1890s | 589 | |
| 1900s | 537 | |
| 1910s | 2,486 | |
| 1920s | 2,049 | |
| 1930s | 1,258 | |
| 1940s | 1,127 | |
| 1950s | 1,285 | |
| 1960s | 1,535 | |
| 1970s | 2,089 | |
| 1980s | 2,367 | |
| 1990s | 2,519 | |
| 2000s | 2,580 | |
| 2010s | 1,998 | |
| 2020s | 690 |
In 1915, its biggest year
Anton was the 252nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1915 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1915.
Names that rose and fell with Anton
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Oscarpeak 2006
- Reubenpeak 1920
- Amospeak 1922
- Eliepeak 2009
- Corneliuspeak 1974
- Chaunceypeak 1981
- Enospeak 1921
- Benpeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.