as a Last Name
- 5,455
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Canter
Meaning & Origins
English: from an agent derivative of Anglo-Norman French cant ‘song’, applied as an occupational name for a singer in a chantry or a nickname for someone who had a good voice or who sang a lot.
| 5,498th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 5,455
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Ohio
- has the most people named Canter per capita
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