Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Greek.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1981. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Antaeus through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 81
- 81 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1983
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 13 in 1983.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Antaeus’s family of names
Antaeus has a related form in Antaeos. Antaeus has a related form in Antaios. Antaeus has a related form in Antaius.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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