Anthony

Proper noun

Anthony

1. A male given name from Latin, in regular use since the Middle Ages.
   • "...Think you've got the best name I've heard," she was saying. - - "Anthony Patch. Only you ought to look sort of like a horse, with a long narrow face - and you ought to be in tatters." "That's the Patch part though. How should Anthony look?" "You look like Anthony," she assured him seriously -...1922, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, (please specify |book=1, 2, or 3)
   • It is doubtless true that American English lacks a tradition for the pronunciation of Anthony, a name which was not often bestowed upon American males until the comparatively recent craze for supposedly swank "British" Christian names, like Stephen, Peter, Michael, etc., in this country.1952, Thomas Pyles, Words and Ways of American English, Random House, page 245
2. A surname originating as a patronymic.
   • The online fundraising site GiveSendGo continues to face criticism over a page that has raised more than $320,000 for Karmelo Anthony, the teen arrested for stabbing fellow 17-year-old student-athlete Austin Metcalf to death at a Texas track meet last week.2025 April 10, Bobby Burack, “GiveSendGo's $300,000 Page For Karmelo Anthony Is Consistent With Company Policy”, in OutKick, archived from the original on 05 Apr 2026
3. An unincorporated community in Marion County, Florida.
4. An unincorporated community in Hamilton Township, Delaware County, Indiana.
5. A city, the county seat of Harper County, Kansas.
6. An unincorporated community in Lebanon Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey.
7. A city in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, bordering onto Anthony, Texas.
8. A town in El Paso County, Texas, bordering onto Anthony, New Mexico.