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canty Name Meaning and History

Irish (West Cork): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó an Cháintighe ‘descendant of the satirist’, from cáinteach ‘satirical’, later shortened to Ó Cáinte.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of canty Families in the US in 1920
Number of canty families
 62-122
 21-61		 1-20
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