Other origin possibilities for the name Kanti.Uralic: ethnographic name originating from the Khanti-Mansi tribes inhabiting the southern Ural mountains of central Russia, their closest relatives being the Ugrians/Magyars of Hungary and the Bashkirs of central Russia. Altaic: titular name of Turkic Oguz origin, from Mongol khan 'lord', Moghul equivalent ghandi, modern Indian titular equivalent Gandhi and Veddic personal name kanti meaning 'enlightened one'. Germanic: topographic name for a person living on the edge of a settlement or in a corner, from Middle Low German kant(e) 'edge', 'corner'. Germanic: habitational name from any of various places called Kant in Prussia, or from Kanth, near Wroc³aw (Breslau) in Silesia. Also see St John of Kanti (14th century patron saint of Poland and Lithuania) born in the village of Kanti near Auschwitz.