Cardenes

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/kaɾdenes/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Cardenes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 37K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 42K
  • USUnited States1 in 1.2M

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.

Spain (measured from records)

1,345 people

Sources
89 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)

Dominican Republic, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Cardenes 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.

Where Cardenes is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain—1,3451 in 37K1.3KCardenes89
AR Argentina—1,0721 in 42K1.1KCardenes36
BR Brazil—5881 in 360K588Cardenes31
DO Dominican Republic#621≈480 est.≈1 in 22K—Cardenes14
US United States—2691 in 1.2M380Cardenes80
HN Honduras—≈120 est.≈1 in 76K—Cardenes4
UY Uruguay—381 in 89K38Cardenes6

1,345 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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; 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Cardenes is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines, Spain, United States

    Also written Cardènes, Cárdenes, Cardeñes

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Cárdenes

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain

    Also written Cárdenes

27 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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)

FormalEstimado/a Cardenes,Dear Cardenes, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Cardenes,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 12 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Cardenes
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.3K#3,413
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.3K#3,412
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—1.1K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—588#14,692
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020380#57,805
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010269#72,332
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000188#91,004
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—38—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • 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

How do you pronounce Cardenes?
A machine transcription gives /kaɾdenes/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Cardenes have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Cardenes, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cardenes.
How common is the name Cardenes?
In Spain, the national register counted 1,345 people named Cardenes, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.
How common is Cardenes compared with other names?
In the Dominican Republic, Cardenes is the 621st most common surname of 26,844 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Cardenes” — the 621st most common surname in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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