Anton
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Russian: var of Antonii
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈænˌtɔn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Anton is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 25th most common given name.
- SESweden1 in 257(measured from records)
- RURussia≈1 in 183as Антон
- PLPoland1 in 217as Antoni
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Anton itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #45 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 691 (measured from records)
- 1 in 257 (inferred from the name graph)
1,075,181 named Anthony, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Anthony in US United States, GB United Kingdom, NG Nigeria, Антон in RU Russia, FR France, BY Belarus and Antoni in PL Poland.
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)
var of Antonii.
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Anton is read(measured from records)
Anton is one spelling over 5 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.
- English23%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Anton in English.
- German19%
) Antonius: männl. Vom. lateini schen Ursprungs, der auf einen altrömischen
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Russian17%
var of Antonii.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
de anton, qui remplace. Antonius est le patronyme d'une illustre famille romaine.
as a nameRussian Names
- Ukrainian10%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Anton in Ukrainian.
- Spanish6.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Anton in Spanish.
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)
Anton 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #25 | 1,075,181as Anthony | 1 in 309 | 1.1M | Anthony | 691 |
| RU Russia | #51 | ≈770,000 est. | ≈1 in 183 | #37 | Антон | 269 |
| NG Nigeria | #48 | ≈480,000 est. | ≈1 in 445 | — | Anthony | 168 |
| GB United Kingdom | #26 | ≈270,000 est. | ≈1 in 247 | 12 | Anthony | 425 |
| FR France | — | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 371 | 174K | Антон | 21 |
| PL Poland | #89 | 176,680as Antoni | 1 in 217 | 177K | Antoni | 153 |
| BY Belarus | #52 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 235 | 24 | Антон | 83 |
| SE Sweden | #299 | 39,632 | 1 in 257 | 40K | Anton | 110 |
1,075,181 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE). 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)
Anton is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
German and Russian form of ANTHONY , now also used in the English-speaking world.
as a word
In Basque, a male given name, equivalent to English Anthony or Spanish Antonio
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kw, Antony, a village and civil parish in east Cornwall, England
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Josef Ib. 1678ATnot in their usual nameEmperor from 1705 till his death in 1711
- Karl VIb. 1685ATnot in their usual name18th century Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor
- Franz Anton Mesmerb. 1734DEGerman physician
- Paul von Hindenburgb. 1847DEnot in their usual namePrussian-German field marshal of the German Empire, statesman and president of Weimar Germany and Nazi Germany (1847–1934)
- Anton Chekhovb. 1860RURussian dramatist and author (1860–1904)
- Philipp Lenardb. 1862DEnot in their usual nameGerman physicist (1862–1947)
- Anton Pannekoekb. 1873NLDutch astronomer and Marxist theorist (1873-1960)
- Anton Mussertb. 1894NLDutch fascist (1894-1946)
- Franz Beckenbauerb. 1945DEnot in their usual nameGerman sports official and association football player (1945–2024)
- Chris Reab. 1951GBnot in their usual nameEnglish male singer-songwriter and guitarist (1951–2025)
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 128 sources across 59 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 40K | #104 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 28K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 19K | #1,634 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 16K | #141 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 15K | #143 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 5.1K | #395 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 63 | #1,634 |
Reference works 9
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Anton mean, and where does it come from?
- var of Antonii. Recorded by A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996).
- In which country does Anton have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 million people named Anthony, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Anton most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Anton is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 257 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- Is Anton a male or female name?
- Anton 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 Anton?
- In the etymology graph, Antonio, Anthony and Tony are forms of the same name in other languages; Toni, Ante and Anto are recorded short or pet forms.
- How common is the name Anton?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 39,632 people named Anton, about 1 in 257 residents.
- How common is Anton compared with other names?
- In the United States, Anton is the 25th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Anton?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈænˌtɔn/ (IPA) for English.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/antonThe 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, “Anton” — the 25th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.