Family 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’.