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kantor Name Meaning and History

  1. Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a cantor, an official of a synagogue whose duty is to sing liturgical music and leads prayers, from Latin cantor ‘singer’, a derivative of canere ‘to sing’.
  2. German, Czech, Slovak, and northern Croatian; Hungarian (Kántor): occupational name for a choirmaster or village schoolmaster.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The kantor name in History

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Distribution of kantor Families in the US in 1920
Number of kantor families
 70-138
 24-69		 1-23
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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