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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant spelling of Canter.
  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant spelling of Kantor.
  • French (Picardy) : learned form of chantre ‘singer’. Compare Canter 1.

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