Cantu surname meaning

Cantu, often written Cantù in Italian records, is chiefly a habitational surname from Cantù in Lombardy. The unaccented form is especially common in Hispanic records, where immigration and Spanish-language writing often removed the accent. Canto and Cantus may be comparison forms, but similar spellings do not establish one shared family branch. The surname’s place association is clear even though the deeper pre-Roman history of the Lombard locality is not a settled literal translation. The catalog therefore uses place with high confidence.