Given name & surname
Ante
“elk; suede”·“duck”
Ante is a surname with more than one origin. It is used in English and Serbo-Croatian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
As a Spanish and Catalan surname, it goes back to a word meaning “elk; suede.” As a Dutch and North German surname, it goes back to a word meaning “duck.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Ante has more than one origin: as a Spanish and Catalan surname, it goes back to a word meaning “elk; suede”; as a Dutch and North German surname, it goes back to a word meaning “duck”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1971. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ante through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 215
- 215 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1979
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 15 in 1979. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 568 as a first name in 2020; 619 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ante’s family of names
In Serbo-Croatian usage, Ante has a conventional equivalent in the English form Anthony. In Serbo-Croatian usage, Ante has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Antonio. In Croatian usage, Ante has a conventional equivalent in the German form Anton.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Ante has relatives in 7 languages.
9 related names in 7 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
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 11
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- AnthonyEnglish
- AntonioSpanish
- AntonGerman
- Antjeequivalent
- Jantjeequivalent
- Anttiequivalent
- 安東尼Chinese
- AntãoPortuguese
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People named Ante
- Ante RebićCroatian association football playerborn 1993
- Ante BudimirCroatian footballerborn 1991
- Ante GotovinaCroatian generalborn 1955
- Ante Markovićlast Prime minister of Yugoslavia (1924-2011)
- Ante ĆorićCroatian association football playerborn 1997
- Ante StarčevićCroatian politician, writer and "Father of Croatian homeland" (1823-1896)
- Ante ČačićCroatian football managerborn 1953
- Ante CovicAustralian association football playerborn 1975
- Ante TomićCroatian basketball player (born 1987)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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