Cardozo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: full of thorns
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kardoso/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cardozo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country, where it is the 42nd most common surname.
- UYUruguay1 in 86(measured from records)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 173
- ARArgentina1 in 375
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 Cardozo 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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- #386 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 342 (measured from records)
- 1 in 86 (inferred from the name graph)
121,140 people
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Cardoso in BR Brazil, PT Portugal.
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)
full of thorns
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cardozo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #42 | 121,140 | 1 in 375 | 121K | Cardozo | 112 |
| BR Brazil | #48 | 46,173 | 1 in 4.6K | 46K | Cardoso | 253 |
| PT Portugal | #27 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 230 | — | Cardoso | 193 |
| PY Paraguay | #25 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 173 | — | Cardozo | 71 |
| UY Uruguay | #15 | 39,403 | 1 in 86 | 39K | Cardozo | 76 |
| BO Bolivia | #63 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Cardozo | 53 |
121,140 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Cardozo is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Benjamin Nathan, justice, US
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Supreme Court
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Abraham Miguel Cardosob. 1627ESSpanish physician
- Benjamin N. Cardozob. 1870USUnited States federal judge (1870-1938)
- Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozob. 1944VEArchbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mérida
- Eduardo Acevedob. 1959UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan footballer
- José Eduardo Cardozob. 1959BRBrazilian lawyer
- José Cardozob. 1971PYParaguayan association football player and manager
- Óscar Cardozob. 1983PYParaguayan footballer
- Neri Cardozob. 1986ARArgentine footballer
- Paolo Cardozob. 1989UYUruguayan footballer
- Rudy Cardozob. 1990BOBolivian footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 38 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 121K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 46K | #465 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 39K | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Cardozo mean, and where does it come from?
- full of thorns Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- How do you pronounce Cardozo?
- A machine transcription gives /kardoso/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Cardozo have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 121 thousand people named Cardozo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cardozo.
- Where is Cardozo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cardozo is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 86 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Cardozo?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 121,140 people named Cardozo, about 1 in 375 residents.
- How common is Cardozo compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Cardozo is the 42nd most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cardozoThe 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, “Cardozo” — the 42nd most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.