Cantone Family Crest & Name History

Cantone and Cantoni are two spellings with one history. Surname dictionaries give the meaning as “Of the corner”.

A variant of Cantoni

Cantone and Cantoni differ only in the final vowel; Italian surnames often appear in singular and plural versions. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. Other spellings include Canton.

The 2010 US Census counted 836 people named Cantone, ranking it number 28,525 among American surnames. From 1891 to 2000, 158 births in France were registered under Cantone.

Family crest and blazon

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Cantone, so the heraldry linked to Cantoni is a starting point, not an automatic right.

Get the complete Cantone report, with a museum-style coat of arms.