Given name
Antônio
“valuable”
Antônio is a masculine given name from Latin. It is used in Portuguese.
Original LatinAntonius
Meaning & origin
Antônio’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Antônio has a diminutive in Tom. In Portuguese usage, Antônio shares an earlier linguistic root with Anthony. In Portuguese usage, Antônio has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Antonio.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Antônio has relatives in 37 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Antônio comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 40
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- AntoniusLatin, Dutch
- Anthonydoublet · English, Portuguese
- AntonSwedish, Romanian
- Antonydoublet · Portuguese
- AntoineFrench
- Toniequivalent
- Antonidoublet · Polish, Portuguese
- Antoninoequivalent
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- Antoniosequivalent
- Antoninequivalent
- AntalHungarian
- AnteCroatian
- Antoninusequivalent
- Антонийequivalent
- Toninoequivalent
- 安東尼Chinese
- Antôniafeminine form
- AntümiTurkish
- АнтонијеSerbian
- АнтонRussian
- AntoniuRomanian
- AntekPolish
- AntninMaltese
- AntanasLithuanian
- AntonsLatvian
- アンソニーJapanese
- AntaineIrish
- AntoonDutch
- ʻAkoniHawaiian
- ΑντώνηςGreek
- ΑντώνιοςGreek
- AntónGalician
- AnttoniFinnish
- AntonoEsperanto
- AntunCroatian
- 安东尼Chinese
- AntonínCzech
- AnttonBasque
- أنتونيArabic
- Antãodoublet · Portuguese
People named Antônio
- Antônio Carlos JobimBrazilian songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, and pianist/guitarist (1927–1994)
- CarecaBrazilian association football playerborn 1960
- Juninho PernambucanoBrazilian footballerborn 1975
- Antônio Carlos ZagoBrazilian association football player and managerborn 1969
- Toninho CerezoBrazilian association football player and managerborn 1955
- ToninhoBrazilian association football playerborn 1965
- Antônio Carlos GomesBrazilian composer (1836–1896)
- ToquinhoBrazilian musicianborn 1946
- CoutinhoBrazilian footballer and manager (1943-2019)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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