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/).
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.
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.
Antoni's popularity over time
5,253 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #2 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2000.
Where Antoni is most popular
Antoni is most popular in Świętokrzyskie, 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.
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Świętokrzyskie1,552 boys born+27%
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Lublin2,634 boys born+16%
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Subcarpathian2,950 boys born+11%
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Łódź3,033 boys born+8%
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Warmian-Masurian1,666 boys born+5%
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West Pomeranian1,949 boys born+5%
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Masovian7,906 boys born+1%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian2,391 boys born−1%
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Greater Poland4,687 boys born−1%
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Lubusz1,070 boys born−2%
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Lesser Poland4,905 boys born−2%
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Opole991 boys born−3%
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Podlaskie1,359 boys born−6%
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Lower Silesian3,221 boys born−7%
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Silesian4,536 boys born−10%
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Pomeranian2,863 boys born−12%
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).
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17
165,333Kazimierz
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18
165,202Tadeusz
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19150,754Antoni
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20
145,791Franciszek
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21
145,747Marian
When Antoni celebrates name day
Antoni appears 6 times in the Polish name day calendar. The main date is 9 January.