The Cantara surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 619 people carried this name — #36,204 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 476,200 people counted. That is up 6% from 585 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Cantara surname
Borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese Cantara.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Cantara» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 61 people named Cantara.
10 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 9 départements, most often Corsica.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
Who carried it
People named Cantara,
with a public archive behind them.
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Romualdo Cantara 1793–1864 · politician
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Rocío Cantara 1987– · athletics competitor
Wikidata (CC0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Cantara.
- Canny 734 · U.S. census
- Cano 37,368 · U.S. census
- Canon 2,644 · U.S. census
- Canova 1,294 · U.S. census
- Canovas 291 · U.S. census
- Canta 214 · U.S. census
- Cante 557 · U.S. census
- Cantero 2,253 · U.S. census
- Cantie 112 · U.S. census
- Cantillon 217 · U.S. census
- Cantin 1,389 · U.S. census
- Cantini 121 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Cantara is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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