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kantner Name Meaning and History

  1. habitational name from either of the places named Kanten, in former East Prussia or Silesia.
  2. occupational name for someone who made wooden racks or trestles for beer and wine barrels, from an agent derivative of Middle High German ganter, kanter ‘barrel rack’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of kantner Families in the US in 1920
Number of kantner families
 67-131
 23-66		 1-22
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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