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I like it OK, but for actual use I'd prefer Antonia. Especially since I often see people here in South Africa spelling it Antionette but still pronouncing it as if it was Antoinette. Saffers are historically bad at French, but this defies all logic.

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I was at school with an Antoinette who usually went by the full name. When we were aged about 8 and below, she was sometimes called Anti, one hopes by people who didn't know it was a prefix ... later she was sometimes known by a form of her ln, and when she left school and went to nursing college she became Toni and has retained it. I still think of her as Antoinette and called her that the other day, and she did a double-take!