Ants

given name · Estonian · Latin script

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

Ants is a given name, most frequently recorded in Estonia. It appears chiefly in Estonian and Finnish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Medieval variant of Hans, from Johannes.

rarermore common
  • EEEstonia1 in 801◐
  • SESweden1 in 112K
  • LVLatvia1 in 235K

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

≈111 ●

across 3 countries

Sources
49 ●

678 records

Official registry-verified

1 in 112K ◐

Sweden

Meaning & origin●

Medieval variant of Hans, from Johannes.

Sources 1

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Ants is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
EE Estonia#1195,299487 rec.—2KAnts49
US United States—9799 rec.——Ants39
SE Sweden—91△10 rec.1 in 112K91Ants8
FI Finland—1213 rec.1 in 464K301Ants4
IN India—1114 rec.—125Ants4
NZ New Zealand—95 rec.——Ants10
GB United Kingdom—910 rec.——Ants4
LV Latvia—80 rec.1 in 235K8—4
CA Canada—77 rec.——Ants6
ZA South Africa—55 rec.——Ants1
BR Brazil—53 rec.——Ants5
IS Iceland————1——

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

Languages●

  • Estonian5.4K80%
  • Finnish65010%
  • English2604%
  • German741%
  • 541%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Estonian5,40280%
Finnish65010%
English2604%
German741%
541%

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◐

Ants is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name602 records spelled Ants6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Australia, Estonia

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Ãñtš

  • Russian given name34 records spelled Ants5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Estonia

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Антс

37 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●

Ants is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In tzh, woman

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

  • In Basque, "(G-to), escoba de horno hecha de hierbas" A .

    as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia

  • In Latvian, Vīrieša vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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●

02550751002000200520102015202085 · 1999

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Ants in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
199985
200084
200182
200280
200379
200477
200575
200672
200770
200871
200969
201066
201166
201266
201366
201465
201564
201660
201760
201858
201957
202057

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Ants Laikmaa, b. 1866Ants Piip, b. 1884Ants Kurvits, b. 1887Ants Kaljurand, b. 1917Ants Antson, b. 1938Ants Laaneots, b. 1948Ants Järvesaar, b. 1948Ants Johanson, b. 1962Kristian Luuk, b. 1966Ants Tammik, b. 1990
  • Ants Laikmaab. 1866EEEstonian painter (1866-1942)
  • Ants Piipb. 1884EEEstonian politician, diplomat and legal scholar (1884–1942)
  • Ants Kurvitsb. 1887EEEstonian general (1887-1943)
  • Ants Kaljurandb. 1917EEEstonian military personnel (1917-1951)
  • Ants Antsonb. 1938EEEstonian speed skater (1938–2015)
  • Ants Laaneotsb. 1948EEEstonian general and politician (born 1948)
  • Ants Järvesaarb. 1948EEEstonian politician (born 1948)
  • Ants Johansonb. 1962EEEstonian folk musician, presenter and musicologist (born 1962)
  • Kristian Luukb. 1966SEnot in their usual nameSwedish comedian and television presenter (born 1966)
  • Ants Tammikb. 1990EEEstonian photographer (born 1990)

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 13 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Ants
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register)—2K#85
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—2K#85
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—301#2,736
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—125#353
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—91#9,094
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)199985—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200084—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200182—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200280—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200379—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200477—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200575—

Reference works 2

  • 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 · 34 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ants?
We estimate roughly 111 people bear Ants (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
In which country does Ants have the most bearers?
Ants is most frequently recorded in Estonia, where it is most often spelled ants.
How common is Ants compared with other names?
In Estonia, Ants is the 119th most common given name of 14,570 given names recorded there.
Is Ants a male or female name?
Ants 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 Ants mean?
Recorded meaning: Medieval variant of Hans, from Johannes.
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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, “Ants” — the 119th most common given name in Estonia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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