Kantuta is from the Quechua / Aymara Kantuta — Sacred Andean flower (Cantua buxifolia). Kantuta is one of the Quechua + Aymara feminine names — central to traditional Andean Indigenous heritage. Quechua-Aymara feminine name reflecting Andean Indigenous heritage.
Kantuta does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kantuta reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.