Family name origins & meanings
- German : variant spelling of Anthes.
- German : Humanistic Hellenization of Blume, literally ‘flower’, with reference to the Greek vocabulary word anthos ‘flower’.
- German : Henry Antes (1701–55), German-American religious leader in PA, was a descendant of a certain Baron von Blume of Mainz, said to have altered his name to Antes to escape religious persecution during the Thirty Years’ War.