Marcoantonio
Masculine · “of Mars”
Marcoantonio is two Roman names written solid, and the Roman naming system is the reason there were so few to choose from. A Roman man had a personal name drawn from a list of about eighteen, and no more; everything distinctive about his name came from his clan and his family, not from the part his parents chose. It is the opposite of how naming works now.
How old is the name Marcoantonio?
Marcoantonio first appears in US birth records in 1972 — 53 years ago. The typical Marcoantonio alive today was born around 2000, making them about 25 years old. About 1,500 people named Marcoantonio are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Marcoantonio most popular?
Marcoantonio peaked in 1997, reaching #1294 nationally. See the whole 1997 chart.
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Where it comes from
From A Roman personal name and a Roman clan name to Marcoantonio
The story of Marcoantonio
The list of Roman personal names was tiny. Marcus, Gaius, Lucius, Publius, Quintus and a dozen or so others covered essentially every free man in the republic, and they were abbreviated to single letters in inscriptions because everybody knew which was which. Daughters often got no personal name at all, taking the feminine of the clan name and being distinguished, if there were several, by number. The result is that Roman names carry almost no information about the individual and a great deal about the family, which suited a society organized around descent. The modern habit of choosing a first name for its sound or its associations would have been unintelligible: the part a Roman parent chose was the part that mattered least.
Meaningscholars disagree
of Mars, and a family name
The first element is a Roman personal name belonging to the war god, and that reading is settled. The second is a Roman clan name whose own meaning has never been established despite a great deal of effort; the connections offered to Greek or Etruscan words are guesses. So half the compound is explicable and half is not, which is the ordinary situation for Roman names.
How the name formed
- A Roman personal name and a Roman clan name
- Carried together by a famous general and politician
- Marco Antonio as a Spanish and Italian compound name
- Written solid in American registers
Related forms: Marcantonio · Marco Antonio · Marcus Antonius
Pronouncing Marcoantonio
MAR-koh-an-TOH-nyoh
Five syllables with two stresses, one on the first and a heavier one in the second half. Written solid it resists being split, which is generally why families write it that way: they want one name and the form wants two.
Nicknames for Marcoantonio
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1972
- Most boys named
- 200190 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1294reached in 1997
- Change vs 2023
- −33.3%6 in 2024, from 9
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Marcoantonio in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Marcantonio in Italian — same name
- Marco Antonio in Spanish — same name
- Marcus Antonius in Latin — related form
Marcoantonios among us
people named Marcoantonio are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Marcoantonio sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Both halves are entirely familiar and neither needs explaining.
- Marco and Tony are two complete and very different names from one certificate.
- It is standard across Spanish and Italian-speaking families rather than an invention.
- Databases and forms will split it, hyphenate it or drop half of it repeatedly.
- Five syllables will be reduced to two by everybody outside the family.
- It reads as a compound to English speakers, who expect first names to be single.
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Frequently asked
- How many Marcoantonios are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,500 people named Marcoantonio are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Marcoantonio in 2025?
- Marcoantonio is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Marcoantonio with classmates?
- Marcoantonio will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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