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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a reduced form of the personal name Ant(h)on (see Anthony).
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for a potter from German Ton, Polish ton ‘clay’, ‘potter’s earth’.
  • Norwegian : variant of Thoen.

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