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    The surname Cantey

    A place surname, carried by 998 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex C530

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Cantey is more common than 84.6% of them.

    Origin

    As an English surname, a variant of Gandow, an unknown location in England. As a Norman habitational surname, from Candé in Maine-et-Loire, a Gaulish name meaning "confluence" related to the town Condate. Also compare French gantier (“glovemaker”).

    Cantey is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 998 people named Cantey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 309,364 Americans. That is down 11% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,115.

    #24,914
    rank among US surnames
    998
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    -10.5%
    change since 2000 (was #21,754)

    Who is named Cantey

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    51% of people named Cantey identified as Black (not Hispanic), 46% as white (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • Black (not Hispanic) 51%
    • White (not Hispanic) 46%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • Two or more races 0.9%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Cantey

    Cantey has the Soundex code C530, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C530.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Cantey come from?
    As an English surname, a variant of Gandow, an unknown location in England. As a Norman habitational surname, from Candé in Maine-et-Loire, a Gaulish name meaning "confluence" related to the town Condate. Also compare French gantier (“glovemaker”).
    How common is the surname Cantey?
    998 people in the United States had the surname Cantey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 309,364 Americans. It ranked 24,914th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Cantey?
    In the 2010 Census, 51% of people named Cantey identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 46% as white (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Cantey?
    Cantey is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Cantey getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,115 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 998 in 2010, down 11%.