Comments for the name Anton

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

Main character in the musical "West Side Story".

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".

Anton LaVey is the founder of the Church of Satan.

Famous bearer is Anton Bruckner, an Austrian Romantic composer.

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Considered traditional but not outdated in Germany.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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".

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

Archduke Anton of Austria (1779-1835), son of Emperor Leopold II of the Holy Roman Empire.

Anton is a Croatian name too. [noted -ed]

As much as I love the name Anthony, there are too many Anthonys (Anthonies?) in this world. Anton is a great alternative.

Anton is also used in Finland. It's name day is on January 17th. [noted -ed]

This name exists also in contemporary Greek: ΑΝΤΩΝΗΣ.
The name itself derives from the Greek mythology: ADONIS was the demi god of beauty.

Anton (1690-1690) was the son of Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria and his first wife Maria Antonia.

Anton (1755-1836) was the son of Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony and his wife Maria Antonia.