Antony

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

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

Antony is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 51st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From the male personal name Anthony, from Latin Arifonius, a Roman family name of unknown origin and meaning.

rarermore common
  • NINicaragua1 in 34◐
  • PYParaguay1 in 42
  • SVEl Salvador1 in 46

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈4.6M ●

across 10 countries

#7 ●

of 16M given names

7 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
623 ●

37M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 76 ◐

Netherlands

Spellings & scripts●

AntonioLatin · Portuguese●35M records
АнтонCyrillic · Russian●4.8M records
ᲐნტონიGeorgian · Georgian●732 records
ΑντώνιοςGreek · Greek●61 records
안토니오Hangul · Korean●1 records
ԱնտոնArmenian · Armenian●1 records
אנטאןHebrew · Yiddish●0 records

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Antonio in BR Brazil, ES Spain, AR Argentina and 9 more, Anthony in US United States, FR France, GB United Kingdom and 6 more, Антон in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 1 more and Anton in NL Netherlands, DE Germany, DK Denmark and 1 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●

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 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Antony is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#514,695,8592.1M rec.—#37Антон240
AR Argentina#154,653,9063M rec.—4KAntonio154
MX Mexico#83,364,0892.8M rec.—4KAntonio303
VE Venezuela#52,781,2322M rec.—581Antonio138
BR Brazil#42,241,094△646K rec.1 in 942.6MAntonio264
PE Peru#121,347,4461.2M rec.——Antonio144
US United States#151,073,50416M rec.1 in 3101.1MAnthony623
GB United Kingdom#29944,660783K rec.—12Anthony329
PY Paraguay#2754,117109K rec.——Antonio66
UA Ukraine#74753,255739K rec.—listedАнтон127
CL Chile#15687,52461K rec.—937Antonio179
PH Philippines#8631,023830K rec.——Anthony193

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Portuguese552K43%
  • English271K21%
  • Spanish149K12%
  • French114K9%
  • Swahili50K4%
Show as table
Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese551,61443%
English271,03121%
Spanish148,92212%
French113,6099%
Swahili50,4934%

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◐

Antony is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name129K records spelled Antony15 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Hindi, Sinhala, Urdu

    Also written Antany, অ্যান্টনি, Antóny, Antoný, Ańtońy

  • Telugu given name28K records spelled Antony27 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United Kingdom, United States

    Languages: Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil

    Also written Anthony, Antani, அந்தோணி, ஆண்டனி, Antoni

  • a separate given name21K records spelled Antony4 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Antôny, Antóny, Ántony

  • Indonesian given name9.7K records spelled Antony2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Indonesia, Peru, United States

    Also written Äntöny

  • English given name2.5K records spelled Antony120 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Laos, Thailand, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, Lao, Thai

    Also written Antione, Antonio, Anthony, แอนโทนี่, Antoine

  • Czech given name1.6K records spelled Antony5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, United Kingdom, United States, Peru

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Antóny, Äntöny

63 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●

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.

Over time●

0100200300190019502000266 · 2007

Show as table
Antony in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1900–2025
Yearrecords
19006
19035
19126
191310
191422
191514
191615
191722
191821
191919
192020
192113
192220
192313
192420
192514
192611
192717
19289
192912
193014
193111
193211
193311
19349
19357
19368
193710
193819
193917
194016
194110
194215
194315
194414
194520
194619
194713
194825
194924
195034
195129
195246
195354
195458
195549
195647
195755
195860
195967
196096
196188
196297
1963108
1964111
1965110
1966105
1967127
1968150
1969159
1970177
1971146
1972128
1973114
1974117
1975117
1976120
1977111
1978142
197998
1980116
1981120
1982134
1983124
1984125
1985100
1986157
1987144
1988163
1989140
1990151
1991166
1992156
1993151
1994152
1995153
1996188
1997189
1998176
1999178
2000209
2001226
2002220
2003248
2004238
2005248
2006248
2007266
2008231
2009199
2010209
2011147
2012156
2013169
2014118
2015125
2016110
201796
201883
201994
202073
202176
2022119
2023117
202492
2025104

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 116 years between 1900–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Antony Hewish, b. 1924Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, b. 1930Tony Hoare, b. 1934Derek Parfit, b. 1942Antony Blinken, b. 1962Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh, b. 1964ANOHNI, b. 1971Mark Viduka, b. 1975Antony Starr, b. 1975Antony dos Santos, b. 2000
  • 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).

Evidence●

Attested in 103 sources across 57 countries.

Official registers attesting Antony
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202283K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—82K#370
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)202039K—
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—21K#576
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202418K#2,279
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—13K#1,842
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202012K#2,141
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20246.2K#256
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.3K#12,931
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—1.6K#413
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.5K#18,326
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.1K#21,776

Reference works 5

  • 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)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,044 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Antony?
We estimate roughly 4.6 million people bear Antony (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Antony have the most bearers?
Antony is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled антон.
How common is Antony compared with other names?
In Russia, Antony is the 51st most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
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.
What does the name Antony mean?
Recorded meaning: From the male personal name Anthony, from Latin Arifonius, a Roman family name of unknown origin and meaning.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/antony

The same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.

About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Antony” — the 51st most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

See how Antony parses inside a full name →