Anton

Anton is the 5,161st most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,550 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 45,600.

By the numbers

People: 6,550
Rank: 5,161st
How common: 1 in 45,600
Per 100,000: 2.2

Where the name comes from

Borrowed from German Anton and from other northern European languages.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 76.5%
Hispanic or Latino 16.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 3.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.1%
Black, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Anton

Waldemar Anton (born 1996)German-Uzbek footballer
Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg (1711–1794)Bohemian nobleman
Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern (1811–1885)Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
Igor Antón (born 1983)Spanish road bicycle racer of Basque origin
Arsenio Martínez-Campos y Antón (1831–1900)Spanish general and politician
Abel Antón (born 1962)Spanish long-distance runner
Susan Anton (born 1950)American actress
David Anton Guijarro (born 1995)Spanish chess player

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

Surnames like Anton

Also a first name

Anton has been given to 23,936 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1915. 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.