Cantrill Coat of Arms and Surname Origin

Cantrill is best understood together with Cantrell: both are English spellings of a single family name. Surname dictionaries give the meaning as “Little singer”.

• The same family of names includes Cantrall and Chantrell.
• Spelled with “i” instead of “e”, Cantrill shows how the same name was heard and written differently.
• The 2010 US Census counted 220 people named Cantrill, ranking it number 85,049 among American surnames.
• Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists.

Family crest and blazon

There is no single Cantrill family crest for every bearer. Herald Lab researches the arms historically associated with the name and explains whose they were. Get the complete Cantrill report, with a museum-style coat of arms.