Kánter

surname · Latin script

Kánter is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: * German, Jewish, and Dutch surname, variant of Kantor. * Also as a German surname, variant of Kant.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 83K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 107K
  • SESweden1 in 136K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

4,000 people, 2010

Sources
51 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 83K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kanter in US United States, AR Argentina, NL Netherlands.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

* German, Jewish, and Dutch surname, variant of Kantor. * Also as a German surname, variant of Kant.

Sources 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kánter counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Kánter is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States4,0001 in 83K4KKanter51
SE Sweden751 in 136K75—2
NL Netherlands601 in 288K60Kanter6
FI Finland521 in 107K52—1
AR Argentina431 in 1.1M43Kanter30
NO Norway301 in 182K30—1

4,000 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Kánter is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States

    Also written Kanter

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Kánter under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Kánter mean, and where does it come from?
* German, Jewish, and Dutch surname, variant of Kantor. * Also as a German surname, variant of Kant. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
In which country does Kánter have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 4.0 thousand people named Kánter, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kanter.
Where is Kánter most common?
Kánter is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 83 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Kánter?
In the United States, the national register counted 4,000 people named Kánter in 2010, about 1 in 83 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kánter”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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