Surname Spotlight: Anton

Sharing the Anton name is not the same as sharing a crest; arms were granted to individual families.

What Anton means

Families named Anton carry a German surname with a long history. The usual explanation, from Elsdon Smith, is “descendant of Anton (inestimable)”.

Like many surnames, it grew out of a personal name. The 2010 census count for Anton in the United States was 6,823, good for rank 5,129. Spain's INE counts 23,423 residents with Anton as first surname and 22,861 with it as second.

Get the complete Anton report, with a museum-style coat of arms.