António
given name · Latin script
Meaning: European Portuguese standard spelling of Antônio
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɐ̃tɔniu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
António is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 4th most common given name.
- ESSpain1 in 85(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 94
- ITItaly≈1 in 102
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #33 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 543 (measured from records)
- 1 in 85 (inferred from the name graph)
2,241,094 people, 2022
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Antonio in BR Brazil, US United States, AR Argentina and 4 more.
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)
European Portuguese standard spelling of Antônio
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
António 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #4 | 2,241,094 | 1 in 94 | 2.6M | Antonio | 272 |
| IT Italy | #4 | ≈610,000 est. | ≈1 in 102 | 2.2K | Antonio | 279 |
| ES Spain | #4 | 590,938 | 1 in 85 | 628K | Antonio | 310 |
| PH Philippines | #50 | ≈340,000 est. | ≈1 in 320 | — | Antonio | 156 |
| US United States | #135 | 289,178 | 1 in 1.1K | 288K | Antonio | 543 |
| AR Argentina | #12 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 253 | 4K | Antonio | 163 |
| PT Portugal | #6 | ≈97,000 est. | ≈1 in 107 | listed | Antonio | 227 |
2,241,094 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); the pt-irn-lista-nomes register. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Anthony of Paduab. 1195PTnot in their usual nameFranciscan saint, Doctor of the Church (1195–1231)
- António, Prior of Cratob. 1531PTPortuguese royal
- Pedro V of Portugalb. 1837PTnot in their usual nameKing of Portugal from 1853 to 1861
- Fernando Pessoab. 1888PTnot in their usual namePortuguese poet, writer, and philosopher (1888–1935); creator of the heteronymic system including Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, Álvaro de Campos, and Bernardo Soares
- António de Oliveira Salazarb. 1889PTPrime Minister of Portugal (1889-1970)
- António Ramalho Eanesb. 1935PTPresident of Portugal
- António Mascarenhas Monteirob. 1944CVCape Verdean politician and former president of Cape Verde (1944-2016)
- António Guterresb. 1949PTSecretary-General of the United Nations since 2017
- António Costab. 1961PTPortuguese politician, President of the European Council since 2024 (1961-)
- Francisco Trincãob. 1999PTnot in their usual namePortuguese footballer (born 1999)
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 25 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 2.6M | #22 |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Lista de Nomes Próprios admitidos | — | — | — |
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 António mean, and where does it come from?
- European Portuguese standard spelling of Antônio Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce António?
- A machine transcription gives /ɐ̃tɔniu/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is António a male or female name?
- António 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 António?
- In the etymology graph, Anthony, Tony and Antoine are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does António have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 2.2 million people named António, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled antonio.
- Where is António most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, António is densest in Spain — about 1 in 85 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name António?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 2,241,094 people named António in 2022, about 1 in 94 residents.
- How common is António compared with other names?
- In Brazil, António is the 4th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about António?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ant%C3%B3nioThe 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, “António” — the 4th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.