as a Last Name
- 4,109
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Kantor
Meaning & Origins
Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a cantor, an official of a synagogue whose duty is to sing liturgical music and leads prayers, from Latin cantor ‘singer’, a derivative of canere ‘to sing’.
| 7,069th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 4,109
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- New York
- has the most people named Kantor per capita
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