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Antoni

A Latin name that reaches back to the Greek anthos, "flower", though it has long carried the sense of "priceless". Today it sits among the hundred most-given boys' names in Poland, common enough that you almost certainly know an Antoni.

Antoni Pronunciation

Antoni is pronounced ahn-TO-nyee (/anˈtɔɲi/).

Alive in 2025
173,316
Newborns 2025
5,253
National rank
#84
Next name day
7 November
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What Antoni means

Where Antoni comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Antoni descends from the Latin Antonius, the name of an old Roman family, the gens Antonia. The Romans carried it long before anyone fixed a meaning to it, and its earliest sense is lost. Later readers linked it to the Greek word anthos, meaning flower, and that is how the gloss "kwiat" came to sit beside the name. A second reading gave it the sense of priceless, nieoceniony, something that cannot be reckoned in coin.

Whatever the origin, the name found a home in Poland through Saint Anthony of Padua, whose feast falls on 13 June and who is still asked to help find what has gone missing. His imieniny fills church calendars each summer. From Antoni grew a whole household of forms: the feminine Antonina and its older cousin Antanina, and the softer Antosia, Tosia, and Tola.

Read a school register in any Polish town and Tosia will likely sit a few desks from an Antoni. The name shortens easily and wears well. Its Latin root stays fixed while the meanings, flower and priceless, ride alongside it.

When Antoni celebrates name day

Antoni appears 31 times in the Polish name day calendar, 6 of them as a main name, the first on 9 January.

Next name day
7 November
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Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

Also celebrates

Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.

How many people are named Antoni

1 in 123 men in Poland is named Antoni. 173,316 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #84 among male names.

People with the name Antoni 2019 → 2025
173,316 +25,396 since 2019
2020 151,145 +3,225
2021 156,746 +5,601
2022 161,690 +4,944
2023 166,194 +4,504
2024 169,879 +3,685
2025 173,316 +3,437

Antoni's popularity over time

5,253 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #2 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2000.

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5,253 newborns with the name Antoni in 2025
national rank #2 that year

Where parents choose Antoni

Antoni is most popular in Holy Cross, 27% above the national average (1,552 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Lublin (+16%) and Subcarpathian (+11%). It is least common in Pomeranian and Silesian, 12% and 10% below average respectively.

Chosen most
  • Holy Cross
    +27%
    1 in 36 babies
  • Lublin
    +16%
    1 in 39 babies
  • Subcarpathian
    +11%
    1 in 41 babies
Chosen least
  • Pomeranian
    −12%
    1 in 51 babies
  • Silesian
    −10%
    1 in 50 babies
  • Lower Silesian
    −7%
    1 in 49 babies

Antoni as a middle name

Antoni is a first name for 173,316 men in Poland and a middle name for another 150,754, a 53/47 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 19th, between Tadeusz (165,202) and Franciszek (145,791).

As a first name
173,316
As a middle name
150,754
first name 53% middle name 47%
Middle-name ranking men

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