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The CANTOR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,978 7713 0.001 15
United States (1880 census) 66 42114 0 1
Change since 1880 +3912 +34401 +N/A +14
Other Countries
Australia 107 13456 0.001 7
United Kingdom 248 14384 0.001 5
Top States for CANTOR by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 613 2931 0.003 32
California 467 5683 0.001 14
Florida 462 4114 0.003 29
New Jersey 319 2799 0.004 38
Pennsylvania 255 5601 0.002 21
Top States for CANTOR by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Connecticut 133 3185 0.004 39
New Jersey 319 2799 0.004 38
Vermont 21 4228 0.003 34
New York 613 2931 0.003 32
Massachusetts 184 4307 0.003 29

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called CANTOR live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CANTOR represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CANTOR in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CANTOR by picking someone at random in Connecticut than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CANTOR

Language of origin: Hebrew

Religious origin: Jewish

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CANTOR surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of CANTOR in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 663 16.67
Asian/Pacific 133 3.34
Mixed Race 36 0.9
Black/African American 13 0.33
Native American/Alaskan 11 0.28
White (Caucasian) 3,122 78.48

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the CANTOR surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of CANTOR in historical publications

CANTOR. Lat. a singer ; a precentor in a church, still so styled in cathedral churches.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to CANTOR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CANTOR.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for CANTOR

The following words are slight variants of CANTOR that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.