Anthony

Meaning

Anthony comes from the Roman family name Antonius, which later became a common Christian given name. In the 19th-century sources provided, it is glossed as “inestimable,” and one source also notes the Greek form Ἀντώνιος. The exact older origin is uncertain in these excerpts, but the name was widely established in Latin and then passed into many European languages.

Origin

Fun fact

The familiar nickname Tony is noted in the sources as a short form of Anthony.