Cárdona
surname · Latin script
Cárdona is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country, where it is the 38th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Cardona, ancient toponymic surname. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos .
- COColombia≈1 in 270(inferred from the name graph)
- HNHonduras≈1 in 460
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 470
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Cárdona itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 390 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 274 (inferred from the name graph)
≈190,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Cardona in CO Colombia, MX Mexico, US United States and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Spanish Cardona, ancient toponymic surname. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos .
Cited for this meaning 3
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Cárdona counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #38 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 274 | 72 | Cardona | 195 |
| MX Mexico | #296 | ≈51,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | 885 | Cardona | 188 |
| GT Guatemala | #20 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 465 | — | Cardona | 62 |
| US United States | — | 32,727 | 1 in 10K | 34K | Cardona | 390 |
| HN Honduras | #64 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 457 | — | Cardona | 64 |
| SV El Salvador | #224 | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Cardona | 43 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 1,465 | 1 in 2.3K | 1.5K | — | 30 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the co-datosgov-candidates register; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cárdona mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish Cardona, ancient toponymic surname. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos . Recorded by Wiktionary and Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos and 1 other source.
- In which country does Cárdona have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 193 thousand people named Cárdona in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cardona.
- How common is the name Cárdona?
- In the United States, the national register counted 32,727 people named Cárdona in 2010, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
- How common is Cárdona compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Cárdona is the 38th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/c%C3%A1rdonaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Cárdona” — the 38th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.