Kardaš
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
/kardaʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kardaš is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Perhaps also Greek, a reduced form of Kardassis ‘brother’, from Turkish karda^ ‘brother, comrade’ or from a patronymic derivative of this, e.g. Kardassakis, Kardassiadis, Kardassopoulos.
- PLPoland1 in 15K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 26K
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 86K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 21 (measured from records)
- 1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
2,482 people, 2026
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Kardas in US United States.
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)Perhaps also Greek, a reduced form of Kardassis ‘brother’, from Turkish karda^ ‘brother, comrade’ or from a patronymic derivative of this, e.g. Kardassakis, Kardassiadis, Kardassopoulos.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kardaš 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 2,482 | 1 in 15K | 1.3K | — | — |
| US United States | 330 | 1 in 1M | 343 | Kardas | 6 |
| HR Croatia | 160 | 1 in 26K | 160 | Kardaš | 21 |
| SE Sweden | 89 | 1 in 115K | 89 | — | 2 |
| NO Norway | 48 | 1 in 114K | 48 | — | — |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 86K | — | Kardaš | 4 |
2,482 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 160 | #5,215 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 137 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kardaš mean, and where does it come from?
- Perhaps also Greek, a reduced form of Kardassis ‘brother’, from Turkish karda^ ‘brother, comrade’ or from a patronymic derivative of this, e.g. Kardassakis, Kardassiadis, Kardassopoulos. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames).
- How do you pronounce Kardaš?
- A machine transcription gives /kardaʃ/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- In which country does Kardaš have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 2.5 thousand people named Kardaš, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kardaš most common?
- Kardaš is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 15 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kardaš?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2,482 people named Kardaš in 2026, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/karda%C5%A1The 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, “Kardaš”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.