Meaning of the nameAntenor

Male
Greek origin
An-te-nor

Antenor is a male Greek name, that of a Trojan nobleman in mythology, which Behind the Name translates as 'instead of a man'.

Meaning

“instead of a man”

Source: Behind the Name: Antenor

People (2022): 16,387
Rank in Brazil: #1,211
Median age: 63 years
2010 Census: 21,910; people

Antenor in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Antenor, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 1950s (4,042 people).

51 women 16,336 men

Source: IBGE, 2022 Demographic Census, Nomes no Brasil. The census counts the first name of people alive in 2022; small counts are not published, and the first group covers everyone born before 1940. How to read these data.

Where the name Antenor is most common

States with the highest share of people named Antenor in the population, in the 2022 Census.

All states

State	People	% of population
São Paulo	3,548	0.008%
Paraná	1,458	0.013%
Bahia	1,402	0.010%
Rio Grande do Sul	1,393	0.013%
Minas Gerais	1,391	0.007%
Santa Catarina	1,068	0.014%
Pará	753	0.009%
Rio de Janeiro	734	0.005%
Goiás	512	0.007%
Maranhão	480	0.007%
Mato Grosso	384	0.011%
Espírito Santo	383	0.010%
Ceará	371	0.004%
Amazonas	353	0.009%
Mato Grosso do Sul	316	0.012%
Pernambuco	314	0.004%
Piauí	281	0.009%
Distrito Federal	200	0.007%
Alagoas	183	0.006%
Rondônia	179	0.011%
Paraíba	172	0.004%
Rio Grande do Norte	153	0.005%
Tocantins	149	0.010%
Sergipe	87	0.004%
Amapá	74	0.010%
Roraima	26	0.004%
Acre	23	0.003%

States with fewer than 15 people with the name are not shown: IBGE does not publish those counts.

About the name Antenor

Behind the Name derives Antenor from the Greek ἀντί (anti), 'against, in comparison with, as', and ἀνήρ (aner), 'man', with the sense of 'instead of a man'. In Greek mythology, Antenor is a Trojan nobleman; Wiktionary records the name in Latin, taken from the Greek Ἀντήνωρ, and in Portuguese, as a mythological name and as a male name. The Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil records Anthenor, with TH, as a spelling variant. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 16,387 people named Antenor, with a median age of 63; the name is almost always male and proportionally it is most common in Santa Catarina.

Sources

Behind the Name: Antenor · behindthename.com · meaning
Wiktionary: Antenor (verbetes em Latin and Portuguese) · en.wiktionary.org · origin
Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Antenor · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · spelling

Questions about the name Antenor

What does the name Antenor mean?

Antenor means “instead of a man”, according to Behind the Name.

How many people are named Antenor in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 16,387 people with the first name Antenor, which ranks it number 1,211 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1950s.

Is Antenor a boy's or a girl's name?

Antenor is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 51 women and 16,336 men had this name.

What is the origin of the name Antenor?

Antenor is a name of Greek origin. The sources are listed at the end of the page.

In which Brazilian state is Antenor most common?

Proportionally, in Santa Catarina: 0.014% of the state's population is named Antenor (1,068 people), according to the 2022 Census.

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