Antônio Pronunciation Spanish:
[anˈtonjo]
Portuguese Portuguese:
[ɐ̃ˈtɔniu] Brazilian Portuguese:
[ɐ̃ˈtonju] Italian:
[anˈtɔːnjo] Gender
Male Language(s)
Bosnian ,
Bulgarian ,
Catalan ,
Croatian ,
Galician ,
Greek ,
Italian ,
Portuguese ,
Romanian , and
Spanish
Name day June 13 Meaning Beyond praise See also
Anthony ,
Antony ,
Antoine ,
Antonius ,
Antonis ,
Tony ,
Antonia ,
Antonietta ,
Antonie ,
Antwan ,
Antone ,
Antoni ,
Antoin ,
Antonin , and
Antuan , Andy,
Tonino (given name)
Antonio is a masculine
given name of
Etruscan origin deriving from the root name
Antonius . It is a common name among
Romance language –speaking populations as well as
the Balkans and
Lusophone Africa .
[1] It has been among the top 400 most popular male baby names in the United States since the late 19th century and has been among the top 200 since the mid 20th century.
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In the English language, it is translated as
Anthony , and has some female derivatives: Antonia, Antónia, Antonieta, Antonietta, and Antonella'. It also has some male derivatives, such as Anthonio, Antón, Antò,
Antonis ,
Antoñito ,
Antonino ,
Antonello ,
Tonio ,
Tono , Toño, Toñín,
Tonino , Nantonio,
Ninni ,
Totò ,
Tó , Tonini, Tony, Toni,
Toninho ,
Toñito , and
Tõnis . The Portuguese equivalent is António (
Portuguese orthography ) or Antônio (
Brazilian Portuguese ). In old Portuguese the form Antão was also used, not just to differentiate between older and younger but also between more and less important.[
citation needed ] In
Galician the form is Antón, in
Catalan Antò, and in
Basque Antxon. The Greek versions of the name are
Antonios (Αντώνιος) and Antonis (Αντώνης).
The name derives from
Antonius , a well-known Latin family name, probably of Etruscan origin. The Roman general
Marcus Antonius held that the origin of the name was
Anthon (Ανθών), son of Hercules. This myth, recorded by
Plutarch , was probably created by Marcus Antonius himself, in order to claim divine parentage. The name was in use throughout the Roman world which, at its height, comprised the whole of the Mediterranean and much of Europe as well as the Middle East. When the Roman Empire became Christian, the name continued in popularity because of the many great saints who bore the name. Later, the name was spread all around the world as Christianity was forced to other locations (e.g. the Far East, the Americas, Australia, and Sub-Saharan Africa).
Famous male bearers
Antonio
Antonio Abetti , Italian astronomer
Antonio Abondio , Italian sculptor
Antonio Aguilar , Mexican singer
Antonio Azara , Italian jurist and politician
Antonio Bamboccio , Italian painter and sculptor
Antonio Banderas , Spanish actor
Antonio Rafael Barceló , Puerto Rican politician
Antonio Barolini , Italian writer
Antonio Barreto , Sri Lankan Sinhala
Karava soldier who gained the title "Prince of Uva" under the name Kuruvita Rala in the
Kingdom of Kandy
Antonio Bassolino , Italian politician
Antonio Bazzini , Italian violinist and composer
Antonio di Benedetto , Argentine writer
Antonio Beretta , first mayor of Milan under the Kingdom of Italy from 1860 to 1867
Antonio Blakeney (born 1996), American basketball player
Antonio Bonazza , Italian sculptor
Antonio Bosio , Italian scholar
Antonio Broccoli Porto , Puerto Rican artist
Antonio Brown , American football player
Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni , Italian violist, composer and conductor
Antonio Cabán Vale , Puerto Rican singer
Antonio Caldara , Italian composer
Antonio Callaway , American football player
Antonio Canaletto , Italian painter
Antonio Candreva , Italian footballer
Antonio Canova , Italian sculptor
Antonio Benedetto Carpano , Italian distiller, famous for having invented the Vermouth and consequently the apéritif
Antonio Marziale Carracci , Italian painter
Antonio Cassano , Italian footballer
Antonio Cavallucci , Italian painter
Antonio Cermeño , Venezuelan boxer
Antonio Cervantes , Colombian boxer
Antonio Citterio , Italian furniture designer
Antonio Conte , Italian former footballer
Antonio Corradini , Italian sculptor
Antonio Correa Cotto , Puerto Rican criminal
Antonio da Correggio , Italian painter
Antonio Corti , Argentine boxer
António Costa , Portuguese Prime Minister.
Antonio Davis , US Basketball player
Antonio de La Gándara , painter
Antonio de la Rúa , former first son of Argentina
Antonio de Nigris (1978–2009), Mexican footballer
Antonio Di Natale , Italian footballer
Antonio Dixon (American football) , American football player
Antonio Donnarumma , Italian footballer
Antonio Escobar (disambiguation)
Antonio Esparragoza , Venezuelan boxer
Antonio Falzon , Maltese military engineer
António Félix da Costa , Portuguese racing driver and
Formula E champion
Antonio Ferreira de Oliveira Junior , Brazilian soccer player
Antonio Floro Flores , Italian footballer
Antonio Fogazzaro , Italian novelist
Antonio Gamoneda , Spanish poet
Antonio Gandy-Golden (born 1998), American football player
Antonio Garay (born 1979), American NFL football player
Antonio Garcia (American football) , American football player
Antonio Gates , American player of American football
Antonio Gherardi , Italian painter, architect, and sculptor
Antonio Ghislieri , better known as Pope Pius V
Antonio Gibson (born 1998), American football running back
Antonio Gibson (safety) (born 1962), American football safety
Antonio Giovinazzi , Italian Formula One driver
Antonio González (martyr) , Spanish Roman Catholic martyr and saint
Antonio Gramsci , Italian writer, politician and political theorist
Antonio Guidi , Italian politician
Antonio Guzmán Blanco , former Venezuelan president
Antonio Hernández (disambiguation)
Antonio Indjai ,
Guinea-Bissau 's army chief of staff and one of the leaders who orchestrated a coup in the country on 1 April 2010
Antonio Inoki , Japanese wrestler
Antonio Janigro , Italian cellist and conductor
Antônio Carlos Jobim , Brazilian creator of the bossa nova
Antonio Johnson (born 1984), American football player
Antonio Johnson (defensive back) (born 2001), American football player
Antonio Landa , Mexican footballer
Antonio Langella , Italian footballer
Antonio Latimer , Puerto Rican basketball player
Antonino Lo Surdo (1880–1949), Italian physicist and co-discoverer of the Stark effect
Antonio Lombardo , Italian sculptor
Antonio Lopez , United States illustrator who signed his work "Antonio."
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Antonio Lotti , Italian composer
Antonio Luna , Filipino Revolutionary Army and General of The Philippine Revolutionary in The First Philippine Republic
Antonio Maccanico , Italian politician
Antonio Maceo Grajales , Cuban general
Antonio Machado , Spanish poet
Antonio Mancini , Italian painter
Antonio Manetti , Italian mathematician and architect
Antonio Maria Maraggiano , Italian sculptor
Antonio Margarito , American boxer
Antonio Martini , Italian Biblical scholar and Archbishop of Florence
Antonio Martino , Italian politician
Antonio Marzano , Italian politician
Antonio McDyess , United States basketball player
Antonio Tobias Mendez , American sculptor
Antônio Meneses , Brazilian cellist
Antonio Meucci , Italian-American inventor
Antonio Monda , Italian film director
António Monteiro , Portuguese diplomat
Antonio Mosconi , Italian politician
António Mota , Portuguese trader and explorer
Antonio Narcisse , American football player
Antonio Nariño , Colombian ideologist and politician
Antonio Negri , Italian philosopher
Antonio Nocerino , Italian footballer
Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira and his brother
Antônio Rogério Nogueira , both Brazilian mixed martial artists
Antonio Pantojas , Puerto Rican actor
Antonio Paoli , Puerto Rican opera singer
Antonio Pappano , British conductor
Antonio S. Pedreira , Puerto Rican poet
Antonio Pigafetta , Italian explorer
Antonio Pignatelli , better known as Pope Innocent XII
Antonio del Pollaiuolo , Italian painter
Antonio Prieto , Spanish long-distance runner
Antonio Puerta , Spanish international footballer
Antonio Raul Corbo , American child actor
Antonio Reeves (born 2000), American basketball player
Antonio de los Reyes Correa , Puerto Rican military hero
Antonio Rivera , Puerto Rican boxer
Antonio Rodríguez Balinas , Puerto Rican US Army General
Antonio Rosmini-Serbati , Italian philosopher
Antonio Rossi , Italian canoer
Antonio Roybal , Spanish American painter
Antonio Rüdiger , German footballer
Antonio Ruiz Soler , Flamenco dancer (known as "Antonio")
Antonio Rukavina , Serbian footballer
Antonio Sabàto Jr. , Italian-American model and actor
Antonio Sacchini , Italian composer
António de Oliveira Salazar , Portuguese statesman and prime minister
Antonio Salieri , Austrian Court Composer, famous "mediocre" rival of Mozart
António Salvador , Portuguese long-distance runner
Antonio Sánchez , Mexican musician
Antonio Sánchez , Puerto Rican show host
Antonio Sciortino , Maltese sculptor
Antonio Segni , Italian politician
Antonio Semini , Italian painter
Antonio Silio , Argentine long-distance runner
Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì , Prime Minister of Italy between 1891 and 1892 and from 1896 until 1898
Antonio Stradivari , Italian luthier
Antonio Tabucchi , Italian writer
Antonio Taguba , a Filipino-American retired major general of the US army
Antonio Tarver , United States boxer
Antonio Travi , Italian painter
Antonio Valero de Bernabé , Puerto Rican, helped Simón Bolívar liberate South America
Antonio Valencia , Ecuadorian footballer
Antonio Maria Vassallo , Italian painter
Antonio Vivaldi , Italian composer
Antonio Zarro , Academy Award-winning Italian screenwriter
Antonio may also refer to:
Antonio as middle name
Carlo Antonio Buffagnotti , Italian painter
Carlo Antonio Tavella , Italian painter
Eugene Antonio Marino , first African American archbishop in the United States
Francesco Antonio Franzoni , Italian sculptor
Giacomo Antonio Arland , Italian painter
Gioachino Antonio Rossini , Italian composer
Giovanni Antonio Amadeo , Italian sculptor
Giovanni Antonio Dosio , Italian architect and sculptor
Giovanni Antonio Facchinetti , better known as Pope Innocent IX
Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini , Italian painter
Giovanni Antonio Scopoli , Italian-Austrian physician and naturalist
José Antonio Bowen , American jazz musician and president of
Goucher College
José Antonio de la Garza , Mexican-American politician
Juan Antonio Marichal , Dominican baseball player
Luis Antonio Tagle , Filipino cardinal and current pro-prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization
Antonio Valencia , Ecuadorian footballer
Marco Antonio Barrera , Mexican boxer
Marco Antonio Etcheverry , Bolivian soccer player
Marco Antonio Muñiz , Mexican singer
Marco Antonio Muñiz , Puerto Rican singer, better known as Mark Anthony, named after the Mexican singer
Marco Antonio Regil , Mexican show host
Marco Antonio Solís , Mexican singer
Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli , Italian composer
Tomaso Antonio Vitali , Italian composer
Known as Tony
Tony Álvarez , Major League Baseball center fielder
Tony Alvarez (actor) , Spanish-Australian actor
Tony Alvarez (singer) , Cuban singer
Tony Ayala Jr. , Mexican-American boxer
Tony Baltazar , Mexican-American boxer
Tony Campos , Mexican-American musician
Tony Carreira , Portuguese singer
Tony Danza , Italian-American boxer and actory
Tony Fratto , Deputy Press Secretary
Tony Parker , French basketball player
Tony Peña , retired Major League Baseball player
Tony Pérez , Hall of Fame Major League Baseball player
Tony Plana , Cuban actor
Tony Romo , American football quarterback
Tony Sanchez (disambiguation) , multiple people
Tony Vega , Puerto Rican singer
Fictional characters
Antonio may refer to the fictional characters:
Antonio Fernández Carriedo (アントーニョ・フェルナンデス・カリエド ) , the given human name for the
personification of
Spain from the
anime series
Hetalia: Axis Powers
Antonio Garcia , a character in the television show
Power Rangers: Samurai
Antonio (The Merchant of Venice) , the title character in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice
Antonio, a character in Shakespeare's
Much Ado About Nothing
Antonio, a character in Shakespeare's
The Tempest
Antonio, a character in Shakespeare's
Twelfth Night
Antonio, a hunter in the video game
Identity V
Antonio Bologna , a character in Webster's
The Duchess of Malfi
Antonio, a character on the television show
Monster Warriors
Tony Montana , the main character in the film
Scarface (1983 film)
Antonio, an
anteater villager in the
Animal Crossing series
Antonio, a character in the video game
Assassin's Creed II
Antonio the male otter, a character in the animated TV show
The Penguins of Madagascar
Antonio, one of the
scarlet macaw players in the Pit of Doom in
Rio 2
Antonio “Tony” Padilla, a character in the novel and Netflix series
13 Reasons Why
Antonio, the protagonist's father in the movie
Nahuel and the Magic Book
Antonio Madrigal, a character in
Encanto
Other uses
Surnames
See also
References
Bosnian ,
Catalan ,
Croatian ,
Galician ,
Italian ,
Portuguese ,
Romanian , and
Spanish