Anthony Family History
- Anthony Name Meaning
- English: from the personal name Anthony, Latin Antonius. See also Anton. This, with its variants, cognates, and derivatives, is one of the commonest European personal names. Many of the European forms have been absorbed into this spelling as American family names; for the forms, see Hanks and Hodges 1988. Spellings with -h-, which first appear in English in the 16th century and in French (as Anthoine) at about the same time, are due to the erroneous belief that the name derives from Greek anthos ‘flower’. The popularity of the personal name in Christendom is largely due to the cult of the Egyptian hermit St. Anthony (ad 251–356), who in his old age gathered a community of hermits around him, and for that reason is regarded by some as the founder of monasticism. It was further increased by the fame of St. Anthony of Padua (1195–1231), who long enjoyed a great popular cult and who is believed to help people find lost things. South Indian: this is only a given name in India, but has come to be used as a family name among Christians from South India in the U.S.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,933,719 Historical Documents with Anthony on Ancestry
- 472,449 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 288,328 Census and Voter Lists
- 59,623 Military Records
- 29,478 Immigration Records
- 1,083,841 Member Trees
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Number of Anthony families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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57 - 112 20 - 56 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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