Cantey

name

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

Etymology

As an English surname, a variant of Gandow, an unknown location in England. As a Norman habitational surname, from Candé in Maine-et-Loire, a Gaulish name meaning "confluence" related to the town Condate. Also compare French gantier (“glovemaker”).

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