Family name origins & meanings
- Italian of uncertain derivation, possibly : of uncertain derivation, possibly aphetic form of Alcàntara, a topographic name for someone who lived by running water, from Arabic form al qantarah ’the river’.
- Italian of uncertain derivation, possibly : from a diminutive of cantaro ’night pot’, presumably applied as a derogatory nickname.
- Italian of uncertain derivation, possibly : perhaps from a derivative of cantare ‘to sing’ (compare Cantore).