Antero

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Dal greco; nome di un santo martire sotto Massimino I

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/anteɾo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Antero is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • VEVenezuela1 in 25K(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 82K
  • USUnited States1 in 573K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Finland (measured from records)

129,934 people

Sources
117 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 43 (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Italian

Dal greco; nome di un santo martire sotto Massimino I.

Sources 1

  • Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Antero 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.

Where Antero is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FI Finland—129,9341 in 43193KAntero14
SE Sweden—4,8341 in 2.1K4.8K—8
BR Brazil—2,5681 in 82K4KAntero81
VE Venezuela—1,1431 in 25K1.1KAntero17
US United States—5811 in 573K579Antero117
IS Iceland—21 in 175K2——
PT Portugal#529——listedAntero65

129,934 people counted by DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register). 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: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Antero is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Finland, United States, Peru

    Also written Antéro

  • Hindi given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Finland, United States, India

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Ántero

  • Ukrainian given name18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Russia, Peru, United States

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Bulgarian

    Also written Антеро, Антеру, Anthero

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Ántero, Antéro

46 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Antero 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 Swedish, Antero är en finsk form av → Andreas.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In German, männl. Vom., finnische Form von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • Finnish form of ANDREW . Pet form: Antti .

    as a word

  • In Portuguese, a male given name, equivalent to English Anterus

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Italian, a male given name, equivalent to Latin Anterus

    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)

18001850190019502000Antero de Quental, b. 1842Veikko Antero Koskenniemi, b. 1885Veikko Kankkonen, b. 1940Osmo Vänskä, b. 1953Juha Tapio, b. 1974Teemu Pukki, b. 1990Mikael Granlund, b. 1992Niko Hämäläinen, b. 1997Sebastian Aho, b. 1997
  • Antero de Quentalb. 1842PTPortuguese poet (1842–1891)
  • Veikko Antero Koskenniemib. 1885FIFinnish poet, journalist and professor (1885-1962)
  • Veikko Kankkonenb. 1940FInot in their usual nameFinnish ski jumper
  • Osmo Vänskäb. 1953FInot in their usual nameFinnish conductor, clarinetist and composer
  • Juha Tapiob. 1974FInot in their usual nameFinnish musician
  • Teemu Pukkib. 1990FInot in their usual nameFinnish footballer (born 1990)
  • Mikael Granlundb. 1992FInot in their usual nameFinnish ice hockey forward
  • Niko Hämäläinenb. 1997USnot in their usual nameFinnish association football player
  • Sebastian Ahob. 1997FInot in their usual nameFinnish ice hockey player (born 1997)
  • AnterusITnot in their usual namePope and Bishop of Rome from 235 to 236

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)

InformalHola Antero,Hi Antero, (English)

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 49 sources across 25 countries.

Official registers attesting Antero
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—8.4K#1,500
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010122#137,327
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—38#28,627
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • 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

How do you pronounce Antero?
A machine transcription gives /anteɾo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What does the name Antero mean?
Recorded meaning: Dal greco; nome di un santo martire sotto Massimino I.
Is Antero a male or female name?
Antero 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 Antero?
In the etymology graph, Andrew, Andres and Andre are forms of the same name in other languages; Antti is a recorded short or pet form.
In which country does Antero have the most bearers?
In Finland, the national register counted about 130 thousand people named Antero, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled antero.
Where is Antero most common?
Antero is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 43 people carrying it.
How common is the name Antero?
In Finland, the national register counted 129,934 people named Antero, about 1 in 43 residents.
How common is Antero compared with other names?
In Portugal, Antero is the 529th most common given name of 19,352 given names recorded there.

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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, “Antero” — the 529th most common given name in Portugal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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