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canton Name Meaning and History

  1. Galician (Cantón): habitational name from places in Lugo and Pontevedra provinces, in Galicia, named Cantón, from a derivative of canto ‘corner’ (see Canto).
  2. Southern French: topographic name, from Occitan canton ‘corner’, ‘angle’, denoting someone who lived on a street corner.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of canton Families in the US in 1920
Number of canton families
 41-79
 14-40		 1-13
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Canton of Pembrokeshire, Wales Sheila 18
Canton's from Watson, Minnesota MNGenWeb 0
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THOMAS CANTON Bonna 6
Arthur Canton cbothner 0
Earl/Earle Keith Canton ajsgrammy20041 0
David L. Spelmen & Maggie Canton - April 15, 1880 phbadave 0
Christ J. Canton, Minnesota Ellen Rigsby 4
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CANTON_Frank_M_1849-1927.JPG t42Fairlawn 0
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