Gantt

The Gantt Families of Duplin and Pender Counties, North Carolina. The name Gantt came to England with the ancestors of the Gantt family in the Norman Conquest of 1066. The Gantt family lived person who was "gaunt," [1] as in Shakespeare's character John of Gaunt in Richard II. Another more credible origin of the name is having derived "from the town of Gaunt, now Ghent, in Flanders."