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kant Name Meaning and History

  1. German: topographic name for a person living on the edge of a settlement or in a corner, from Middle Low German kant(e) ‘edge’, ‘corner’.
  2. German: habitational name from any of various places called Kant in Prussia, or from Kanth, near Wroclaw (Breslau) in Silesia.
  3. Indian (northern states): Hindu name from Sanskrit kanta ‘beloved’. This occurs frequently as the final element of compound given names such as Lakshmikant ‘beloved of Lakshmi’ (an epithet of the god Vishnu) and Rajanikant ‘beloved of the night’ (an epithet of the moon).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of kant Families in the US in 1920
Number of kant families
 18-33
 7-17		 1-6
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Charlotte Kant (Bahr) carolflores46 5
Kant & Kent families Want2Bwarm 3
Kant and Krause Barb Truxal 1
GEORGIA ANN (KANT) LEMLEY bcloans4u_1 1
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