Anthony

52,156 people in the United States were counted with the surname Anthony in the 2020 census, making it the 633rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 5,731.

By the numbers

People: 52,156
Rank: 633rd
How common: 1 in 5,731
Per 100,000: 17.5

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

From Latin Antōnius, name of a Roman gens (with excrescent -h- suggested by an unetymological association with). The Roman clan name is of uncertain etymology, but is not Greek or Hebrew; most likely of ett origin, possibly derived from Ani, the Etruscan god of the sky.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Anthony described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 57.3%
Black, not Hispanic 31.3%
Hispanic or Latino 4.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Anthony

Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)American women's rights activist
Marc Anthony (born 1968)American singer
Carmelo Anthony (born 1984)American basketball player
Kenny Anthony (born 1951)Prime Minister of Saint Lucia
Piers Anthony (born 1934)English-American writer in the science fiction and fantasy genres
Joel Anthony (born 1982)Canadian basketball player
Ray Anthony (born 1922)American bandleader, trumpeter, songwriter, and actor
Richard Anthony (1938–2015)French singer, songwriter

People named Anthony with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Anthony

Also a first name

Anthony has been given to 1,495,156 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1990. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.