Antony
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From the male personal name Anthony, from Latin Arifonius, a Roman family name of unknown origin and meaning
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/æntəni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Antony 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.
- BRBrazil1 in 2.6K(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 Antony 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 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)
1,075,181 named Anthony, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Brazil
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, Antoni in PL Poland and Anton in SE Sweden.
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)
From the male personal name Anthony, from Latin Arifonius, a Roman family name of unknown origin and meaning.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Antony 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 |
| BR Brazil | — | 82,937 | 1 in 2.6K | 83K | Antony | 116 |
| BY Belarus | #52 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 235 | 24 | Антон | 83 |
| SE Sweden | #299 | 39,632as Anton | 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); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); 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)
Antony is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A male given name from Latin, a mostly British spelling variant of Anthony.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, MarK Roman general; pers. name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Antothijah [Anthothijah]
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In German, männl. Vom., deutsche Variante von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Antony Hewishb. 1924GBEnglish physicist and radio astronomer (1924–2021)
- Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdonb. 1930GBWelsh photographer and filmmaker; ex-husband of Princess Margaret (1930–2017)
- Tony Hoareb. 1934GBnot in their usual nameBritish computer scientist
- Derek Parfitb. 1942GBnot in their usual nameBritish philosopher (1942–2017)
- Antony Blinkenb. 1962USAmerican lawyer and diplomat (born 1962) and former United States Secretary of State (2021–2025)
- Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburghb. 1964GBnot in their usual nameBritish prince (born 1964); youngest child of Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
- ANOHNIb. 1971GBnot in their usual nameBritish singer
- Mark Vidukab. 1975AUnot in their usual nameAustralian association football player
- Antony Starrb. 1975NZNew Zealand actor (born 1975)
- Antony dos Santosb. 2000BRBrazilian footballer
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 106 sources across 57 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 83K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 82K | #370 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 39K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 18K | #2,279 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 13K | #1,842 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 12K | #2,141 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 875 | #370 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 554 | #2,570 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 393 | #811 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 367 | #823 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 239 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 104 | — |
Reference works 7
- 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
- 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
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Antony mean, and where does it come from?
- From the male personal name Anthony, from Latin Arifonius, a Roman family name of unknown origin and meaning. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- What are other forms of the name Antony?
- In the etymology graph, Antonio, Anthony and Tony are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Antony 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 Antony most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Antony is densest in Brazil — about 1 in 2.6 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How do you pronounce Antony?
- A machine transcription gives /æntəni/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Antony a male or female name?
- Antony 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.
- How common is the name Antony?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 82,937 people named Antony in 2022, about 1 in 2.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Antony compared with other names?
- In the United States, Antony is the 25th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/antonyThe 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, “Antony” — the 25th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.