Antony

Where Antony comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Antony.

  • Latin
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Antony through the years
  1. 1900
    First appearance
    #1,162 among boys with 6 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1924
    Antony Hewish born
    English physicist and radio astronomer
  3. 1962
    Antony Blinken born
    American lawyer and diplomat (born 1962) and former United States Secretary of State
  4. 1970
    Peak, #611
    177 babies named Antony, its best rank.
  5. 2018
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,823.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Latin, a mostly British spelling variant of Anthony.
Namesakes
  • Antony Blinken · American lawyer and diplomat (born 1962) and former United States Secretary of State, born 1962
  • Antony Hewish · English physicist and radio astronomer, 1924–2021
  • Antony dos Santos · Brazilian footballer, born 2000
  • Antony Gormley · British sculptor, born 1950
  • Antony Beevor · English military historian, born 1946

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.