Antigone
About Antigone
In Greek mytholgy, Antigone was the noble and courageous daughter of Oedipus, who acts as his guide after he blinds himself. Antigone is also the eponymous heroine of a play by Jean Anouilh.
Despite her heroism, however, Antigone has not yet made it into the modern world, but with the increasing acceptance of longer, weightier Greek and Roman names, this could change.
Pronounced an-TIG-uh-nee.
As of October 2026, Antigone ranked #12244 in US births in 2024 SSA, peaked at #4876 in 1975.
Editor's take: The name Antigone is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "worthy of one's parents, in place of one's parents".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
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Antigone on lists
Famous Antigones
- Antigone of Macedon
mother of Queen Berenice I of Egypt
- Antigone of Epirus
wife of Pyrrhus of Epirus
- Antigone of Gloucester
Countess of Tankerville, daughter of Humphrey of Lancaster, Duke of Gloucester
- Antigone Kefala
Australian writer
Antigone in pop culture
- Antigone
daughter and half,sister of Oedipus in Greek mythology; subject of Sophocles' play "Antigone"
- Antigone of Troy
daughter of Laomedon, whose hair was turned into snakes by Hera; later turned into a stork by another god
- Antigone
wife of Peleus who died by suicide after her husband was accused of infidelity
- Antigone Hewitt
Detective Hewitt's wife in the "Flavia de Luce" series by Alan Bradley
- Antigone "Ani" Bezzerides
character on TV's "True Detective"
- Antigone Funn
major character in podcast Wooden Overcoats
- Antigonus
Sicilian lord in Shakespeare's play "A Winter's Tale" (1623)
- Queen Antikonie
character in German Arthurian legend