Given name & surname
Antonio
“a flourishing man; from an ancient Roman family”
Antonio is a form of Anthony. One Latin interpretation is “a flourishing man; from an ancient Roman family.” Its derivation is not certain.
Original LatinAntonius
Meaning & origin
What it means
Antonio is a form of Anthony. One Latin interpretation is “a flourishing man; from an ancient Roman family.” Its derivation is not certain.
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
The story
The name has a place in Shakespeare’s plays.
Antonio through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 264,970
- 262,995 boys · 1,975 girls
- Most popular year
- 1997
- 5,089 babies
- 2025
- 2,058
- #176 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −12%
- Easing
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 2,058 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 176 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 11.6% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 5,069 in 1997. In 2025, Texas had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (339). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 289,178 as a first name in 2020; 15,009 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.
Antonio’s family of names
In Italian usage, Antonio has a diminutive in Tony. Antonio shares a linguistic root with Anthony. In Spanish usage, Antonio has a conventional equivalent in the French form Antoine.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Antonio has relatives in 42 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Antonio comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 19
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 4
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 48
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- AntoniusLatin, Dutch
- AntonGerman, Swedish
- AntonyEnglish
- AntoineFrench
- Toniequivalent
- Antonicognate · Polish, Sicilian
- Antoniosequivalent
- Antonieequivalent
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- AnthonDanish
- AntoninFrench
- AntalHungarian
- Andonialso known as · Basque
- AnteSerbo-Croatian
- Entoniequivalent
- Antoequivalent
- 安東尼Chinese, Mandarin
- АнтонRussian
- AntoniuszPolish
- ΑντώνιοςGreek
- AntuutGreenlandic
- AntãoPortuguese
- Antóndoublet · Spanish, Galician
- AnttonBasque
- AntonsLatvian
- Antonoalso known as · Esperanto
- AntónioPortuguese
- AntonínCzech
- Antinequivalent
- Antoninusequivalent
- AntümiTurkish
- AntoniuRomanian
- AntomioPortuguese
- AntekPolish
- AntoonDutch
- AntninMaltese
- AntanasLithuanian
- アンソニーJapanese
- AntaineIrish
- ʻAkoniHawaiian
- ΑντώνηςGreek
- AnttoniFinnish
- AntxonBasque
- АнтонијеSerbo-Croatian
- AntunSerbo-Croatian
- 安东尼Mandarin
- أنتونيArabic
- АнтонийRussian
- АнтониоRussian
See also 11
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Antonio
- Antonio VivaldiItalian composer and violinist (1678–1741)
- Antonio GramsciItalian Marxist philosopher, writer, and politician (1891–1937)
- Antonio SalieriItalian composer and teacher (1750–1825)
- Antonio MachadoSpanish poet and essayist (1875–1939)
- Agostinho NetoPresident of Angola (1975-1979)1922–1979
- Antonio RüdigerGerman association football player (born 1993)
- Antonio López de Santa AnnaMexican politician and military leader (1794-1876)
- Antonio ConteItalian association football player and managerborn 1969
- Antonio StradivariItalian stringed instrument maker (1643/1649-1737)1644–1737
Characters named Antonio: Tony Montana (Scarface), Toni Cipriani (protagonist of the video game Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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