Last name origins & meanings:
- German: from a vernacular form, common in the Rhineland, of the
personal name Antonius (see Anthony).
- German: variant of Ander.
- Greek: metronymic from Anthē
(genitive Anthēs), a female personal name derived from
anthos ‘flower’, or a reduced form of any of various other
names ending in -anthē such as Rhodanthē ‘rose
flower’.
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