Anthon

Name: Anthon: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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given name · Latin script

A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 27 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

Anthon is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.

rarermore common

PHPhilippines≈1 in 174K(inferred from the name graph)
USUnited States1 in 527K
TZTanzania≈1 in 12K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

: Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
Record sources: 186 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Cited for this meaning 1

Nordic Names

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Anthon counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Anthon is recorded, by country
Country				Most common spelling	Sources
TZ Tanzania	≈4,900 est.	≈1 in 12K	—	Anthon	18
US United States	631	1 in 527K	626	Anthon	186
PH Philippines	≈630 est.	≈1 in 174K	—	Anthon	47
SE Sweden	538	1 in 19K	538	Anthon	22
ZA South Africa	≈500 est.	≈1 in 113K	—	Anthon	15
NL Netherlands	419	1 in 41K	419	Anthon	30
DK Denmark	379	1 in 15K	379	—	2
FI Finland	131	1 in 43K	145	—	3

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

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

Other names spelled this way

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

Finnish given name3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Finland, Sweden, United States
Languages: Finnish, Estonian
Also written Anthón
Thai given name26 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Thailand, United States, Laos, Sweden
Languages: Thai, Lao
Also written Anton, อินทอน, แอนตัน, Antón, แอนตั้น

54 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.

Notable people with this name

Johan Fjeldsted Dahlb. 1807NOnot in their usual namebookseller (1807–1877)
Anton Bangb. 1809NOnot in their usual nameDanish-Norwegian writer and publisher
Anthon H. Lundb. 1844USApostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1844-1921)
Anthon B. Nilsenb. 1855NONorwegian politician (1855-1936)
Anthon van Rappardb. 1858NLDutch painter and draughtsman (1858-1892)
Anthon van der Horstb. 1899NLDutch composer, organist and director
Anthon Frederiksenb. 1953GLGreenlandic politician
Nathan Blissettb. 1990GBnot in their usual nameEnglish footballer (born 1990)
Anthon Erikssonb. 1995SESwedish ice hockey player
Anthon Charmigb. 1998DKDanish cyclist, born 1998

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).

How to address them

FormalDear Colleague,

InformalHello,

Evidence

43 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 27 countries.

Official registers attesting Anthon
Country	Register	Year	Count	Rank
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020	2020	510	#45,217
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010	2010	457	#46,568
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000	2000	422	#47,308
DK Denmark	Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)	—	48	#10,977
US United States	wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)	—	—	—

Reference works 5

Wikipedia given-name tokens
Wikipedia surname tokens
Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)

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

Frequently asked questions

Is Anthon a male or female name?: Anthon is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Netherlands (Meertens NVB), Denmark (Danmarks Statistik) and Finland (DVV), among others.
In which country does Anthon have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 4.9 thousand people named Anthon in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled anthon.
How common is the name Anthon?: In the United States, the national register counted 631 people named Anthon in 2020, about 1 in 527 thousand residents.

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Query this name via API

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/anthon

The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of 2026-10-13 and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “Anthon”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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