Kantor Family History
Kantor Name Meaning
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’.German, Czech, Slovak, and northern
Croatian; Hungarian (Kántor): occupational name for a
choirmaster or village schoolmaster.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Kantor Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Kantor families
 4 - 5  2 - 3 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Kantor Family Origin
Kantor Emigration Information (US)
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Kantor Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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