Comments for ANTON:

Famous bearer: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, the famous Russian playwright, writer and physician.

-- Anonymous User  10/27/2005

Main character in the musical "West Side Story".

-- JellyBee  12/22/2005

The name day of the name Anton in my country is January 17 and the origin of the name is Greek meaning flower. I've also heard that it means "precious".

-- slander  12/28/2005

Anton LaVey is the founder of the Church of Satan.

-- breakofday  1/7/2006

Famous bearer is Anton Bruckner, an Austrian Romantic composer.

-- Anonymous User  3/26/2006

German pronunciation: AWN-ton. [noted -ed]
Considered traditional but not outdated in Germany.

-- JHK  9/2/2006

Anton is a great name for a boy! A much better alternative to Anthony in my opinion.

-- Anonymous User  3/22/2007

Anton. Like the main charecter from Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko, which by the way was one of my favourite books. But his full name was Antoshka Gorodetsky.

-- writingmuse13  2/18/2008

Actually, Writingmuse, I believe - please correct me if I'm wrong here - that "Antoshka" is just the familiar form of the name Anton. So I think it's actually Anton Gorodetsky.

-- ArtemisTheHunter  3/27/2008

Listen to the German pronunciation of Anton here:
http://www.nordicnames.de/Aussprache.html

-- _satu_  4/26/2008

This is much nicer than Anthony, which I find rather boring. I gave it to the main character of a book I'm writing about the Russian Revolution.

-- bananarama  7/9/2008

This name is also used in The Netherlands. [noted -ed]

-- Lucille  10/18/2008

Anton Corbijn is a Dutch photographer and director. He is well known for directing music videos, including Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus" and Nirvana's "Heart-Shaped Box". He is famous for doing U2 and Depeche Mode's photography, filmography and sleeve artwork for more than twenty years.

-- Undine  1/17/2009

Anton Pacino (born 2001), son of actor Al Pacino.

-- CarolinW  2/3/2009

A famous bearer would be Anton Viktorovich Yelchin; known for being Charlie Bartlett, in the movie of the same name, as well as Pavel Checkov in the 2009 movie version of Star Trek and Kyle Reese in "Terminator Salvation".

-- veronica.voodoo  11/1/2009

While less common than its other form Antun, this name is also used in Croatia.

-- goricar  11/13/2009

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