Entry № 749 · Latin origin

Antonia Antonia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ an-TOH-nee-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Priceless, of inestimable worth"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Roman)

A name that means "priceless, of inestimable worth".

Antonia is the feminine of Antonius, an ancient Roman family name of uncertain Etruscan origin. Folk etymology associates it with the Greek anthos (flower) or the Latin sense "priceless." Antonia Minor, mother of Emperor Claudius, was the most famous Roman Antonia.

Today Antonia is widely used across Italy, Spain, Germany, and Eastern Europe. In the U.S. it sits in the top 700.

Priceless, of inestimable worth — a Latin name.

The name in its native script.

Antonia
Transliteration
Antonia
Pronunciation
/ ænˈtoʊ.ni.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Antonia stands.

Antonia does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Antonias before her.

Real people
Antonia Fraser
British historian and novelist.
born 1932
In fiction
Ántonia Shimerda
Heroine of Willa Cather's My Ántonia.
1918 novel

Names connected to Antonia.

The number behind Antonia.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Antonia reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.