Cantar
surname · Latin script
Meaning: to sing
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/kantaɾ/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Cantar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 4.5M(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 19M
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 12 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.5M (inferred from the name graph)
11 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)to sing
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Cantar 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 11 | 1 in 4.5M | 11 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| PH Philippines | — | — | — | Cantar | 6 |
| FR France | — | — | — | Cantar | 12 |
11 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Cantar is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, to sing (express sounds musically through the voice)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romansh, alternative form of chantar (“to sing”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, autonomous present indicative/present subjunctive/imperative of can
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In roa-opt, to sing (to produce music with one’s voice)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 11 | #114,632 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #315,374 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cantar mean, and where does it come from?
- to sing Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
- What are other forms of the name Cantar?
- In the etymology graph, Canto, Kantar and Chant are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Cantar?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /kantaɾ/; in Portuguese /kɐ̃taɾ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Cantar have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 11 people named Cantar, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Cantar most common?
- Cantar is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.5 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Cantar?
- In Spain, the national register counted 11 people named Cantar, about 1 in 4.5 million residents.
What do you want to know about Cantar?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cantarThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Cantar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.