as a Last Name
- 6,528
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Cantwell
Meaning & Origins
English: possibly a habitational name from Canwell in Staffordshire, named with either Old English canne ‘can’, ‘cup’ or the Old English personal name Cana + well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’. The surname is common in Ireland as well as England.
| 4,646th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 6,528
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Oklahoma
- has the most people named Cantwell per capita
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