Cantero History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

Origins Available:
Spain

This Spanish and Portugese topographic name Cantero meant 'one who dwelt on a patch of stoney ground, or near a quarrey'. It was also a metonymic occupational name for a quarry man or mason, originally rendered in the Latin form "Cantus" (the rim or edge of a wheel).

Alternatively, the name could have been a local name, derived from the name of the place where the first person who brought it lived or had land. From the point of view of its etymology, this ancient word means "extremity or side", "tip or corner". From this information we can deduce that the first bearer of this surname probably lived near a quarry or in a fairly rocky place.

Early Origins of the Cantero family

The surname Cantero was first found in Aragon an ancient Kingdom of Spain.

Early History of the Cantero family

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Cantero Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Cañete, Canete, Canet, Caneta, Canette, Canetta, Canetons and many more.

Early Notables of the Cantero family

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Cantero Ranking

In the United States, the name Cantero is the 16,600^th most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name. 1

Cantero migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Cantero Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

Juan Cantero, who landed in America in 1817 2
Henrico Cantero, aged 19, who landed in New Orleans, La in 1838 2
Jose Cantero, who arrived in Puerto Rico in 1846 2
Manuel Cantero, who landed in Puerto Rico in 1848 2
Francisco Cantero, who arrived in Puerto Rico in 1852 2
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Contemporary Notables of the name Cantero (post 1700) +

Marciano Cantero (1960-2022), born Horacio Eduardo Cantero Hernández, an Argentine singer and musician, lead singer and bassist of Los Enanitos Verdes, an Argentine pop/rock band
Cecilia Cantero Pastrana (b. 1929), English teacher in the Philippines

Citations +

"What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)