Anton

Borrowed from German Anton and from other northern European languages. Doublet of Anthony.

Anton (countable and uncountable, plural Antons)

1. A male given name from Latin.
   • 2011, Sophie Hannah, Lasting Damage, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 78:

     'As far as I'm concerned, he's Benjamin Rigby,' said Kit, after the first time we met him. 'He seems like a decent baby and he deserves a decent name. Not that his father's got one, so I suppose I shouldn't be surprised.' Kit thinks it's only acceptable to 'go around calling yourself Anton', as he puts it, if you're Spanish, Mexican or Colombian, or if you're a hairdresser or a professional ice-skater.

2. a transliteration of the Bulgarian, Belarusian, Russian, or Ukrainian male given name Анто́н (Antón).
3. A place in the United States:
   1. An unincorporated community in Washington County, Colorado.
   2. A city in Hockley County, Texas.
   3. An unincorporated community in the town of Superior, Douglas County, Wisconsin.
4. A river in Hampshire, England, a tributary of the River Test.
5. A village and municipality in Sofia province, Bulgaria.

• Ruzicka Goerz Anton syndrome

• annot., nanto

Anton m

1. a male given name

• Andoni, Antton, Antxon

Borrowed from Spanish Antón.

• IPA^(key): /anton/ [ãn̪.t̪õn]
• Rhymes: -anton, -on
• Hyphenation: An‧ton

Anton anim

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Anthony or Spanish Antonio

• “Anton”, in Euskal Onomastikaren Datutegia [Basque Onomastic Database], Euskaltzaindia

Short form of Antoni.

Anton m

1. a male given name

Anton

1. Antony, a village and civil parish in east Cornwall, England

From Latin Antonius. Cognate to English Anthony.

Anton

1. a male given name

• pet forms: Tonny, Tony, Tonni
• female forms: Antonie, Antoinette

From Latin Antonius. Cognate to English Anthony.

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Anton m

1. a male given name

• Ton

• Antoon
• Teun
• Teunis
• Toon

From Latin Antonius. Cognate to English Anthony.

Anton

1. a male given name

• Tõnis, Tõnn, Tõnu

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Anton m

1. a male given name

Patronymics

• son of Anton: Antonsson
• daughter of Anton: Antonsdóttir

From Latin Antonius. Cognate with English Anthony.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑnton/, [ˈɑ̝n̪t̪o̞n]
• Rhymes: -ɑnton
• Syllabification^(key): An‧ton
• Hyphenation^(key): An‧ton

Anton

1. a male given name
   • 1986, Vuokko Tolonen, Lastenhuone, Otava, →ISBN, page 19:

     —Pojan! Hoitaja nostaa päänsä paperista, närkästyneenä tai hölmistyneenä. Tästä ei tällä menolla tule ikinä mitään.
     —Anton.
     Jos se on ihme ja poika, niin olkoon Tšehovin kunniaksi ja Jorman mieliksi.
     —Yhdellä vai kahdella teellä?
     Me emme ymmärrä toisiamme. En haluaisi jättää mahaani hänen armoilleen.

     —A boy! The nurse looks back up from the paper, either offended or stupefied. This will go nowhere at this rate.
     —Anton.
     If it's a boy by some miracle, let him be in honor of Chekhov and to please Jorma.
     —One or two Ts?
     We don't understand each other. I wouldn't want to entrust my belly to this nurse.

• Anttoni, Antto, Toni

Anton

1. genitive singular of Antto

• Anton is the 103^rd most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 6,442 male individuals (and as a middle name to 7,591 more), and also belongs to 7 female individuals (and as a middle name to 9 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

• annot, naton

Borrowed from Latin Antōnius. Cognate to English Anthony.

• IPA^(key): /ˈantɔn/, /ˈantoːn/

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• Hyphenation: An‧ton

Anton m (proper noun, strong, genitive Antons or (with an article) Anton, feminine Antonia)

1. a male given name from Latin

Anton

1. The letter A in the German spelling alphabet.

Anton m (proper noun, genitive singular Antons)

1. a male given name

From Latin Antonius. Cognate to English Anthony.

Anton

1. a male given name

• variants: Tony
• female forms: Antonie, Tonje

• Антон (Anton) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Clipping of Antonie.

• IPA^(key): /anˈton/

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• Rhymes: -on
• Hyphenation: An‧ton

Anton m (genitive/dative lui Anton)

1. a surname
2. a male given name, variant of Antoniu

• Iordan, Iorgu (1983) Dicționar al numelor de familie românești [A Dictionary of Romanian Family Names]‎^[1], Bucharest: Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈantɔn/

Anton m pers

1. a male given name

• Tóno, Tono, Toňo, Tonko
• Tonuľo, Tonuľko
• Antuš, Antuško

• “Anton”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

From Latin Antonius. Cognate to English Anthony.

• IPA^(key): /antóːn/

Antọ̑n m anim

1. a male given name

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine anim., hard o-stem
nominative	Antón
genitive	Antóna
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Antón
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Antóna
dative (dajȃlnik)	Antónu
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Antóna
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Antónu
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Antónom

• variants: Tóne
• female forms: Antónija

From Latin Antonius. First recorded in Sweden in 1623. Cognate with English Anthony.

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Anton c (genitive Antons)

1. a male given name

• (male given names) Tony
• (female names) Antonia
• (surnames) Antonsson

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• [2] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 33 431 males with the given name Anton living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1990s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

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