Ante

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Анте in MK North Macedonia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Ante is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name25K records spelled Ante8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Germany, Australia, Austria

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Ante', Anté

• Spanish given name20K records spelled Ante3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Argentina, Mexico

  Also written Anté, Ante'

• a separate given name2.2K records spelled Ante2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Ecuador

  Also written Ánte

• French given name1.5K records spelled Ante4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Philippines

  Also written Antè, Ànté

• Norwegian Bokmål given name793 records spelled Ante9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, United States

  Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish, Danish

  Also written Ánte, Anté

54 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●

Ante 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, Ante är ursprungligen en smekform till namn som → Anders och → Anton. Det är även en samisk form av → Andreas.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In Portuguese, before (in front of)

  as a word·A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese

• In pi, inflection of anta (“end”):

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In mad, twisting, twining, making thread or string

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

• In English, A price or cost, as in up the ante.

  as a word·kaikki.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.

Over time●

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 117 years between 1900–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Ante Starčevićb. 1823HRCroatian politician, writer and "Father of Croatian homeland" (1823-1896)
• Ante Pavelićb. 1889BACroatian fascist general and military dictator (1889–1959)
• Ante Markovićb. 1924BAlast Prime minister of Yugoslavia (1924-2011)
• Ante Čačićb. 1953HRCroatian football manager
• Ante Gotovinab. 1955HRCroatian general
• Ante Covicb. 1975AUAustralian association football player
• Ante Tomićb. 1987HRCroatian basketball player (born 1987)
• Ante Budimirb. 1991HRCroatian footballer
• Ante Rebićb. 1993HRCroatian association football player
• Ante Toni Žižićb. 1997HRCroatian basketball player (born 1997)

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).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 354 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ante?

We estimate roughly 37 thousand people bear Ante (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Ante have the most bearers?

We estimate about 35 thousand people bear Ante in Croatia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled ante.

Where is Ante most common?

Ante is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 119 people carrying it.

How common is Ante compared with other names?

In Croatia, Ante is the 11th most common given name of 13,510 given names recorded there.

Is Ante a male or female name?

Ante 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 does the name Ante mean?

Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Anthony