Baby name
CLASSIC
🇦🇺 🇧🇷 🇬🇧 Antony
/AN · toh · nee/
Meaning
“Origin and meaning uncertain”
Latin-rooted variant of Anthony, from the Roman gens Antonia; the dropped h reflects the spelling used in many classical texts before the English adoption of the ph convention.
Nicknames
tony
Vibe
gentle
How it ages.
Slightly more literary-feeling than Anthony due to Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra; ages solidly.
The cultural moment.
Standard in the UK and Australia throughout the 20th century; steady rather than fashionable.