Antigone (Ἀντιγόνη) comes from the Greek anti (worthy of) and gone (one's parents, generation) — meaning "worthy of one's parents." Sophocles's tragedy Antigone (c.
Antigone is rare as a given name but rising.
Antigone does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Antigone reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.