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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Kantor.
  • German : topographic name for someone living at the edge of a settlement or in a corner, or habitational name for someone from a place called Kant (see Kant).
  • German : from the medieval personal name Ganthart.

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