What does the name Antoinette mean?

Answer 1

ANTOINETTE

Gender: Feminine

Usage: French

Feminine pet form of ANTOINE. This name was borne by Marie Antoinette, the queen of France during the French Revolution. She was executed by guillotine.

Answer 2

Antoinette is the feminine of Antoine, in English Anthony. This comes from the Roman Antonius, but as this was originally Etruscan and all traces of the Etruscan language have been lost, nobody knows what it means. In the 17th century the name was believed to have a connection with the Greek Anthos, a flower, which is how the letter h came to be added; but there is no such connection.

Saint Anthony the great )3rd century) was a founder of monasticism; St. Anthony of Padua (13th century) is the Patron Saint of Portugal.