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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from either of the places named Kanten, in former East Prussia or Silesia.
  • German : occupational name for someone who made wooden racks or trestles for beer and wine barrels, from an agent derivative of Middle High German ganter, kanter ‘barrel rack’.

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