Ante
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Croatian: a male given name, equivalent to English Anthony
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ǎːnte/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ante is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country, where it is the 11th most common given name.
- HRCroatia1 in 119(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 586K
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 1.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 163 (measured from records)
- 1 in 119 (inferred from the name graph)
35,457 people, 2021
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a male given name, equivalent to English Anthony
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
How Ante is read(measured from records)
Ante is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Croatian87%
a male given name, equivalent to English Anthony
as a wordrecorded as Serbo-Croatiankaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English5.2%
A price or cost, as in up the ante.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ante counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | #11 | 35,457 | 1 in 119 | 35K | Ante | 161 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #86 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 43 | Ante | 27 |
| SE Sweden | — | 838 | 1 in 12K | 838 | Ante | 29 |
| US United States | — | 568 | 1 in 586K | 627 | Ante | 163 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 483K | — | Ante | 11 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 66 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | — | 144 | 1 in 15K | 144 | Ante | 10 |
35,457 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the ba-fzs-newborn-names register; SURS — resident population given names; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ante is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Ante är ursprungligen en smekform till namn som → Anders och → Anton. Det är även en samisk form av → Andreas.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Portuguese, before (in front of)
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
In pi, inflection of anta (“end”):
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mad, twisting, twining, making thread or string
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ante Starčevićb. 1823HRCroatian politician, writer and "Father of Croatian homeland" (1823-1896)
- Ante Pavelićb. 1889BACroatian fascist general and military dictator (1889–1959)
- Ante Markovićb. 1924BAlast Prime minister of Yugoslavia (1924-2011)
- Ante Čačićb. 1953HRCroatian football manager
- Ante Gotovinab. 1955HRCroatian general
- Ante Covicb. 1975AUAustralian association football player
- Ante Tomićb. 1987HRCroatian basketball player (born 1987)
- Ante Budimirb. 1991HRCroatian footballer
- Ante Rebićb. 1993HRCroatian association football player
- Ante Toni Žižićb. 1997HRCroatian basketball player (born 1997)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 59 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 35K | #12 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 31K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 838 | #1,924 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 544 | #18,842 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 524 | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 144 | #610 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 142 | #1,231 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 66 | #985 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | FZS — 100 najčešćih imena (Top-100 Newborn Names, Federation of BiH) | 2025 | 43 | #56 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 24 | #18,842 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 5 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2024 | 3 | #1,005 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ante mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Anthony Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How common is the name Ante?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 35,457 people named Ante in 2021, about 1 in 119 residents.
- How common is Ante compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Ante is the 11th most common given name of 14,066 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Ante?
- A machine transcription gives /ǎːnte/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- Is Ante a male or female name?
- Ante is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Ante?
- In the etymology graph, Tony, Toni and Ton are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Anton and Antun.
- In which country does Ante have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 35 thousand people named Ante, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ante.
- Where is Ante most common?
- Ante is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 119 people carrying it.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/anteThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ante” — the 11th most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.