Entry № 744 · French origin

Antoinette Antoinette — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ an-twah-NET /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Priceless / praiseworthy (Marie Antoinette + Tony Award founder Antoinette Perry)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (French)

A name that means "priceless / praiseworthy (marie antoinette + tony award founder antoinette perry)".

Antoinette is the French feminine of Antoine — from the Latin Antonius (a Roman gens name of uncertain meaning, traditionally interpreted as "priceless, praiseworthy"). The apocryphal "let them eat cake" line was never actually said by her — the phrase appears in Rousseau's Confessions (1782) about "a great princess" written when Antoinette was 9 and living in Austria. Antoinette Perry (1888-1946) — American actress, director, and producer; co-founder of the American Theatre Wing; the Tony Awards (officially the Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, since 1947) are named in her honor. Antoinette Robertson (Dear White People).

Priceless / praiseworthy (Marie Antoinette + Tony Award founder Antoinette Perry) — a French name.

The name in its native script.

Antoinette
Transliteration
Antoinette
Pronunciation
/ ˌæn.twɑːˈnɛt /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Antoinette stands.

Antoinette does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Antoinettes before her.

Real people
Marie Antoinette
Queen of France.
1755 – 1793
Antoinette Perry
American theatre co-founder.
1888 – 1946
Dame Antoinette Sibley
English ballerina (Royal Ballet).
born 1939
In fiction
Antoinette
Various French literature.

Names connected to Antoinette.

The number behind Antoinette.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Antoinette reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.