Canto Family History
Canto Name Meaning
Spanish and Portuguese: topographic for someone who lived on a
corner, canto ‘corner’ (from Latin cantus), or a
habitational name from numerous places in Spain and Portugal named
with this word.Catalan (Cantó): habitational name from
any of the minor places in Catalonia named Cantó, from Catalan
cantó ‘stone’, derived from the pre-Latin form cant-.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Canto
Name Distribution of Canto Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Canto families
 7 - 11  3 - 6 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Canto families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Canto census records
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Canto Family Origin
Canto Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Canto Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Canto census records
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Military Service by Canto
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