Antonius
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in German: of uncertain origin; Latin name of Roman family Antonii
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˌantonˈius/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Antonius is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 75(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 13K
- USUnited States1 in 453K
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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 157 (measured from records)
- 1 in 75 (inferred from the name graph)
229,547 people
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
of uncertain origin; Latin name of Roman family Antonii
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
How Antonius is read(measured from records)
Antonius is one spelling over 4 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.
- Indonesian42%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Antonius in Indonesian.
- German17%
of uncertain origin; Latin name of Roman family Antonii
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
from the Roman name Antonius; via the saints Anthony
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
patronymische Familiennamen zu Rufname Antonius (lat. Antonius).
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
- English14%
a Roman nomen gentilicium
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Dutch14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Antonius in Dutch.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Antonius 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #382 | 229,547 | 1 in 75 | 227K | Antonius | 101 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 1 | Antonius | 123 |
| US United States | — | 735 | 1 in 453K | 731 | Antonius | 157 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 83K | — | Antonius | 10 |
| SE Sweden | — | 524 | 1 in 19K | 524 | — | 7 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 48K | 28 | Antonius | 43 |
| FI Finland | — | 91 | 1 in 61K | 276 | — | 4 |
229,547 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); the de-leipzig-vornamen register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Antonius is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, The name of a Roman gens, a "family name".
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)
- Antonius van den Broekb. 1870NLDutch physicist and lawyer (1870-1926)
- Prince Adalbert of Bavariab. 1886DEnot in their usual nameGerman prince and diplomat
- Han van Meegerenb. 1889NLnot in their usual nameDutch painter and art forger (1889-1947)
- Josef Terbovenb. 1898DEnot in their usual nameGerman politician (1898–1945)
- Piet Steenkampb. 1925NLnot in their usual nameDutch politician and university professor (1925-2016)
- Hans van Mierlob. 1931NLnot in their usual nameDutch politician (1931–2010)
- Ton Koopmanb. 1944NLnot in their usual nameDutch conductor, organist and harpsichordist, born 2 October 1944
- André Ooijerb. 1974NLnot in their usual nameDutch association football player (born 1974)
- Roy Makaayb. 1975NLnot in their usual nameDutch footballer (born 1975)
- Jasper Cillessenb. 1989NLnot in their usual nameDutch association football player (born 1989)
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 60 sources across 34 countries.
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Antonius mean, and where does it come from?
- of uncertain origin; Latin name of Roman family Antonii Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- What are other forms of the name Antonius?
- In the etymology graph, Antonio, Anthony and Tony are forms of the same name in other languages; Teun, Teunis and Theun are recorded short or pet forms.
- How do you pronounce Antonius?
- A machine transcription gives /ˌantonˈius/ (IPA) for Indonesian.
- Is Antonius a male or female name?
- Antonius 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.
- In which country does Antonius have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 230 thousand people named Antonius, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled antonius.
- Where is Antonius most common?
- Antonius is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 75 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Antonius?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 229,547 people named Antonius, about 1 in 75 residents.
- How common is Antonius compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Antonius is the 382nd most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/antoniusThe 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, “Antonius” — the 382nd most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.