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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : from a short form of the personal name Anton(ius) (see Anthony).
  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads in southeastern Norway so named, most from Old Norse Tónni, the dative singular definite form of ‘patch of grass’; a few from tún ‘enclosure’, ‘yard’.

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