Cantor

4,321 people in the United States were counted with the surname Cantor in the 2020 census, making it the 7,433rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 69,200.

By the numbers

People: 4,321
Rank: 7,433rd
How common: 1 in 69,200
Per 100,000: 1.5

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Cantor described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 65.2%
Hispanic or Latino 27.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 4.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.09%

Notable people called Cantor

Georg Cantor (1845–1918)German mathematician, inventor of set theory
Eddie Cantor (1892–1964)American comedian and actor
Moritz Cantor (1829–1920)German historian of mathematics
Eric Cantor (born 1963)American politician
Theodore Edward Cantor (1809–1860)Danish zoologist
Norman Cantor (1929–2004)Canadian historian
Peter Cantor (1101–1197)Roman Catholic theologian

People named Cantor with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Cantor

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.