Anterus
given name · Finnish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Anterus is a given name, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Finnish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: pope.
- PTPortugal1 in 7.6K◐
- PEPeru1 in 8.2K
- VEVenezuela1 in 37K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈138K ●
- Sources
- 106 ●
- 1 in 43 ◐
across 9 countries
41K records
Official registry-verified
Finland
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Antero in FI Finland, BR Brazil, PE Peru and 13 more.
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●
pope
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | — | 129,916△ | 58 rec. | 1 in 43 | 193K | Antero | 15 |
| PE Peru | #839 | 27,564 | 22K rec. | — | — | Antero | 55 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 5,094 | 2.7K rec. | — | 1.1K | Antero | 18 |
| SE Sweden | — | 4,834△ | 5 rec. | 1 in 2.1K | 4.8K | — | 7 |
| MX Mexico | — | 3,627 | 3.4K rec. | — | 14 | Antero | 52 |
| PH Philippines | — | 3,284 | 3.6K rec. | — | listed | Antero | 19 |
| BR Brazil | — | 2,568 | 2.2K rec. | 1 in 82K | 4K | Antero | 85 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,553 | 1.4K rec. | — | 22 | Antero | 29 |
| PT Portugal | #546 | 1,111 | 354 rec. | — | listed | Antero | 64 |
| US United States | — | 579 | 3.1K rec. | 1 in 575K | 579 | Antero | 106 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 325 | 9 rec. | — | 1 | Antero | 9 |
| ES Spain | — | 272 | 373 rec. | 1 in 184K | 290 | Antero | 37 |
Roughly 130K people in Finland bear this name (about 1 in 43). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Finnish21493%
- English125%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Finnish | 214 | 93% |
| English | 12 | 5% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Evidence●
Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 156 | #4,000 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #15,491 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 27 | — |
| VA Vatican City | Holy See — List of Roman Pontiffs (papal regnal + secular names) | — | 1 | #41 |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 4 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Anterus?
- We estimate roughly 138 thousand people bear Anterus (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Anterus have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 130 thousand people bear Anterus in Finland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled antero.
- Where is Anterus most common?
- Anterus is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 43 people carrying it.
- How common is Anterus compared with other names?
- In Portugal, Anterus is the 546th most common given name of 19,429 given names recorded there.
- Is Anterus a male or female name?
- Anterus 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 Anterus mean?
- Recorded meaning: pope
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Anterus” — the 546th most common given name in Portugal. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.