Anthony

A male given name: from Latin Antonius, a family name.

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Anthony or Antony is a masculine given name, derived from the Antonii, a gens (Roman family name) to which Mark Antony (Marcus Antonius) belonged. There was an ancient tradition that the Antonii gens were Heracleidae, being descendants of Anton, a son of Heracles. (Plut. Ant. 4)
"Anthony" is equivalent to Antoine in French; Antonio in Italian and Spanish; António or Antônio in Portuguese; Anton in Dutch, Galician, German, Icelandic, Romanian, Russian, and Scandinavian languages; Antal in Hungarian; and Antun or Ante in Croatian. The usual abbreviated form is Tony (sometimes "Tone" or "Ant" or "Anth"). Its use as a Christian name was due to the veneration of St Anthony the Great, the founder of Christian monasticism, particularly in Egypt . Also significant was the later cult of St Antony of Padua. The spelling with "h" is not found until the 16th century when William Camden incorrectly claimed that the name derived from the Greek ἄνθος (anthos, flower or possibly a small yellow bird such as a wagtail). The spelling pronunciation later became usual in the United States but not in the British Isles.
In the United States, it is the seventh most popular male name as of 2008, according to the Social Security Administration. When the background is Italian, Nino or Toni, shortened from Antonino, are used. Its popularity in the United Kingdom peaked during the 1940s, in 1944 it was the sixth most popular male name and was still as high as 14th in 1964.

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Masc. proper name, from Latin Antonius, name of a Roman gens (with unetymological -h- probably suggested by many Greek loan words beginning anth-, such as anthros "flower," anthropos "man"). St. Anthony (4c.), Egyptian hermit, was patron saint of swineherds, to whom one of each litter was usually vowed, hence Anthony for "smallest pig of the litter (1660s; in condensed form tantony pig from 1590s). St. Anthony's Fire (1520s), popular name for erysipelas, is said to be so called from the tradition that those who sought his intercession recovered from that distemper during a fatal epidemic in 1089.

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English baby name: highly praiseworthy. From Greek anthos, means: flower.

Antonijo, Antonie, Anakoni, Antonije, Anttoni, Antono, Antonius, Toni, Tony, Antek, Antonij, Nino

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Anthony Joshua	1989	English professional boxer
2	Anthony Hopkins	1937	Welsh stage and television actor
3	Anthony Bourdain	1956	Chef and food writer
4	Anthony Martial	1995	French footballer
5	Carmelo Anthony	1984	American professional basketball player
6	Anthony Eden	1897	British Conservative politician, prime minister
7	Anthony Weiner	1964	American politician
8	Anthony Kiedis	1962	American singer
9	Anthony Michael Hall	1968	American actor, producer and director
10	Marc Anthony	1968	American actor, singer and record producer of Puerto Rican descent
11	Anthony Mackie	1978	American actor
12	Anthony Perkins	1932	American actor and director
13	Susan B. Anthony	1820	American women's rights activist
14	Anthony Anderson	1970	American actor
15	Anthony Jeselnik	1978	American actor
16	Anthony Bennett	1993	Canadian professional basketball player
17	Anthony Kennedy	1936	Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
18	Anthony Pettis	1987	American martial artist
19	Anthony Rizzo	1989	American professional baseball player
20	Anthony Scaramucci	1964	American financier
21	Anthony Daniels	1946	English actor
22	Anthony Quinn	1915	Mexican American actor
23	La La Anthony	1979	American actress and television personality
24	Anthony of Padua	1195	Franciscan
25	Anthony Edwards	1962	Actor
26	Anthony DiNozzo		Fictional character
27	Anthony McPartlin	1975	British television presenter
28	Anthony Head	1954	English actor
29	Anthony Spilotro	1938	American mobster
30	Anthony LaPaglia	1959	Australian actor
31	Anthony Ramos	1991	American actor
32	Anthony Rapp	1971	American actor
33	Anthony Curcio	1980	Former criminal
34	Lysette Anthony	1963	British actress
35	Anthony Newley	1931	British actor and musician
36	Anthony Horowitz	1955	English novelist and screenwriter
37	Anthony Burgess	1917	English writer
38	Anthony Graziano	1940	American mobster
39	Anthony Johnson	1600	Indentured servant, farmer, slaveholder
40	Anthony Minghella	1954	British film director, playwright and screenwriter
41	Anthony Ervin	1981	American swimmer
42	Gethin Anthony	1983	English actor
43	Michael Anthony	1954	American musician
44	Anthony Sowell	1959	American serial killer
45	Anthony Mundine	1975	Australian boxer and former rugby league player
46	Anthony Cumia	1961	An American talk radio broadcaster best known for hosting The Opie and Anthony Show
47	Anthony Knockaert	1991	Footballer
48	Anthony Crolla	1983	British boxer
49	Anthony Trollope	1815	English novelist (1815-1882)
50	Anthony Field	1963	Australian musician and actor
51	Anthony McFarland	1977	Player of American football
52	Anthony Foley	1973	Irish rugby union player and coach
53	Emjay Anthony	2003	American actor
54	Anthony the Great	0251	Christian saint, monk, and hermit
55	Anthony Lemke	2000	Canadian actor
56	Anthony Zerbe	1936	American actor
57	Anthony Stokes	1988	Footballer
58	Anthony Blunt	1907	British art historian and soviet spy
59	Anthony van Dyck	1599	Painter from the Southern Netherlands
60	Anthony Modeste	1988	French footballer (b. 1988)
61	Anthony Andrews	1948	British actor
62	Anthony Wayne	1745	Continental Army general
63	Anthony Franciosa	1928	Actor
64	Anthony McAuliffe	1898	American general
65	Anthony Doerr	1973	American writer
66	Anthony Cox		Film producer and art promoter who was once married to Yoko Ono.
67	Joel Anthony	1982	Canadian basketball player
68	Anthony Randolph	1989	NBA basketball player
69	Anthony Quayle	1913	English actor and director
70	Anthony Geary	1947	American actor
71	Anthony Green	1982	Musician from Holland, PA
72	Anthony Salerno	1911	American mobster
73	Piers Anthony	1934	English-American writer in the science fiction and fantasy genres
74	Anthony Ingruber	1990
75	Anthony Wong	1961	Hong Kong actor, screenwriter and film producer
76	Anthony Ogogo	1988	British boxer
77	Anthony Lynn	1968	American football player and coach
78	Anthony Ruivivar	1970	American actor
79	Anthony Foxx	1971	17th United States Secretary of Transportation
80	Anthony Heald	1944	Actor
81	Anthony Parker	1975	American basketball player
82	Anthony Casso	1940	Italian American mobster
83	Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens	1938	British sociologist
84	Greg Anthony	1967	American basketball player
85	Anthony Morrow	1985	American basketball player
86	Anthony Muñoz	1958	American football player
87	Anthony Martin Sinatra	1892	American boxer
88	Anthony Barr	1992	American football player
89	Anthony Salim
90	Anthony Denison	1949	American actor
91	Anthony Shriver	1965	American activist
92	Anthony Swofford	1970	American writer and United States Marine
93	Anthony Valentine	1939	English actor
94	Anthony Kim	1985	Professional golfer
95	Anthony Melchiorri	1965	Television personality, tv host
96	Anthony Quinlan	1984	Actor
97	Anthony Tolliver	1985	American basketball player
98	Anthony Stanislas Radziwill	1959	American television executive and filmmaker
99	Anthony	1973	Indian film editor
100	Anthony Porter	1955	American wrongfully convicted of murder
101	Anthony Watson	1994	English rugby union player
102	Anthony Lopes	1990	Portuguese footballer
103	Anthony Le Tallec	1984	French footballer
104	Anthony James de Rothschild	1977	British businessman
105	Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti	1993
106	Anthony Clark	1964	American actor
107	Anthony Delon	1964	French actor
108	Anthony Callea	1982	Australian singer
109	Anthony Howell	1971	British actor
110	Anthony Rendon	1990	Major League Baseball infielder in the Washington Nationals organization
111	Anthony Lewis	1983	British actor
112	Anthony Tyler Quinn	1962	American actor
113	Anthony Allen Shore	1962	American serial killer
114	Anthony Corleone		Fictional human
115	Anthony Montgomery	1971	American actor
116	Anthony Herrera	1944	American actor
117	Anthony Pellicano	1944	American criminal
118	Anthony Cáceres	1992	Australian footballer
119	Anthony Phillips	1951	British musician
120	Lawrence Anthony	1950	International conservationist, environmentalist, explorer and author
121	Anthony Mirra	1927	Italian-American mobster
122	Anthony Indelicato	1947	American mobster
123	Anthony Vanden Borre	1987	Belgian footballer
124	Anthony Albanese	1963	Australian politician
125	Anthony James	1942	American actor
126	Anthony Comstock	1844	American political writer
127	Anthony Dixon	1987	American football running back
128	Anthony Grant	1966	American college basketball player, college basketball coach, basketball forward
129	Anthony Milford	1994	Australian rugby league player
130	Anthony Corallo	1913	American mobster
131	Anthony Provenzano	1917	American mobster
132	Anthony Perosh	1972	Australian martial artist
133	Anthony Eisley	1925	American actor
134	Anthony de Mello	1931	Indian writer
135	Anthony Mann	1906	American actor and film director
136	Anthony G. Brown	1961	American lawyer, politician, and soldier
137	Anthony Barber	1994	American basketball player
138	Anthony Ujah	1990	Nigerian football player
139	Anthony Sullivan	1969	British television personality
140	Anthony Adams	1980	American football player
141	Anthony Bamford	1945	British businessman
142	Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury	1801	British politician
143	Anthony Ryan	1970	Scottish fantasy fiction e science fiction author
144	Anthony Gaggi	1925	American mobster
145	Anthony Fokker	1890	Dutch aviation pioneer and an aircraft manufacturer
146	Anthony Dirrell	1984	American boxer
147	Anthony Dawson	1916	British actor
148	Anthony Julius	1956	British lawyer
149	Anthony Young	1966	American baseball pitcher
150	Anthony Forwood	1915	Actor
151	Ray Anthony	1922	American musician and actor
152	Anthony Duclair	1995	Canadian ice hockey player
153	Anthony Calf	1959	British actor
154	Anthony Calvillo	1972	American and Canadian football quarterback
155	Anthony Bass	1987	Baseball player
156	Anthony Mason	1956	Journalist
157	Anthony Lake	1939	American academic and diplomat
158	Anthony Hamilton	1971	English snooker player
159	Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers	1442	English nobleman, courtier, and writer
160	Anthony Gonzalez	1984	American football player
161	Anthony Birchak	1986	American mixed martial artist
162	Anthony Davidson	1979	Racing driver, 2014 World Endurance Drivers' Championship winner
163	Anthony Zinni	1943	American Marine Corps general
164	Anthony Steel	1920	British actor
165	Anthony Fasano	1984	Player of American football
166	Anthony Davis	1989	American sportsperson
167	Anthony Gerrard	1986	Footballer
168	Anthony Seldon	1953	British historian
169	Anthony Taylor	1978	English football referee
170	Anthony Starke	1963	American actor
171	Anthony Levandowski
172	Anthony Giacalone	1919	American criminal
173	Anthony Ainley	1932	English actor
174	Anthony Mantha	1994	Canadian ice hockey player
175	Anthony Pilkington	1988	Footballer
176	Anthony Perish	1970	Convicted murderer
177	Anthony Higgins	1947	British actor
178	Anthony Hemingway	1977	American film and television director
179	Anthony Powell	1905	English novelist
180	Anthony Hardy	1951	British serial killer
181	Anthony Dupray	1974	French actor
182	Anthony Montague Browne	1923	British civil servant
183	Anthony Carmona	1953	Supreme Court Judge of Trinidad and Tobago
184	Anthony Braxton	1945	American musician, composer, and philosopher
185	Anthony Crosland	1918	British politician
186	Anthony Dryden Marshall	1924	Recipient of the Purple Heart medal
187	Earl Anthony	1938	American ten-pin bowler
188	Anthony Pratt	1960	Australian businessman
189	Anthony De Longis	1950	American actor
190	Anthony Mandler	1973	American director
191	Anthony Castonzo	1988	American football player
192	Anthony Simcoe	1969	Australian actor
193	Anthony Brown	1981	American gospel musician
194	Anthony Evans, Jr.	1978	Musician
195	Anthony Carter	1960	American football player
196	Dave Anthony	1967	American actor and comedian
197	Choco	1993	Honduran footballer
198	Anthony Hayes	1977	Australian actor
199	Anthony Babington	1561	English criminal
200	Anthony Browne	1946	Author