Cantrell

Family name origins & meanings

• English : habitational name from Cantrell in Devon, recorded as Canterhulle in 1330, from an unexplained first element + Old English hyll ‘hill’.
• English : from Old French chanterelle ‘small bell’, ‘treble’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a bellmaker or ringer.
• English : diminutive of Canter.
• French : nickname for someone who liked to sing.