Cardenal
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/kaɾ.ð̞eˈnal/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Cardenal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country: 1,428 people, counted by INE.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 35K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 35K
- UYUruguay1 in 106K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 117 (measured from records)
- 1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
1,428 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Cardenal
- Spanish:/kaɾ.ð̞eˈnal/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Cardenal is found
(measured from records)Cardenal 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | — | 1,428 | 1 in 35K | 1.4K | Cardenal | 100 |
| BR Brazil | — | 182 | 1 in 1.2M | 182 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | — | 160 | 1 in 284K | 160 | Cardenal | 32 |
| CR Costa Rica | #683 | 146 | 1 in 35K | 146 | Cardenal | 13 |
| US United States | — | 126 | 1 in 2.6M | 206 | Cardenal | 117 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 32 | 1 in 106K | 32 | — | 5 |
| NI Nicaragua | #435 | — | — | — | Cardenal | 20 |
1,428 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenalb. 1924NINicaraguan journalist (1924-1978)
- Ernesto Cardenalb. 1925NINicaraguan priest and politician (1925-2020)
- José Cardenalb. 1943CUCuban baseball player
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Cardenal?
- In the etymology graph, Cardinal is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Cardenal?
- In Spanish /kaɾ.ð̞eˈnal/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Cardenal?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Cardenal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cardenal. After it come Brazil, Argentina, Costa Rica and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Cardenal most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cardenal is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 35 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Cardenal?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,428 people named Cardenal, about 1 in 35 thousand residents.
- How common is Cardenal compared with other names?
- In Nicaragua, Cardenal is the 435th most common surname of 5,756 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/cardenalThe 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, “Cardenal” — ranked 3238th in Spain (INE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.