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cantrell Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from Cantrell in Devon, recorded as Canterhulle in 1330, from an unexplained first element + Old English hyll ‘hill’.
  2. English: from Old French chanterelle ‘small bell’, ‘treble’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a bellmaker or ringer.
  3. English: diminutive of Canter.
  4. French: nickname for someone who liked to sing.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of cantrell Families in the US in 1920
Number of cantrell families
 223-444
 75-222		 1-74
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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