Cantu

Cantu is the 691st most common surname in the United States, shared by 48,115 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 6,212.

By the numbers

People: 48,115
Rank: 691st
How common: 1 in 6,212
Per 100,000: 16.1

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 90.6%
White, not Hispanic 8.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.5%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Cantu

Cesare Cantù (1804–1895)Italian historian
Paty Cantú (born 1983)Mexican singer
Nicolas Cantu (born 2003)Mexican-American actor

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

Surnames like Cantu

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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.