Cardin

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in French: French surname derived from Richard; noted as a business family name in the text

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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

Cardin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 105K(measured from records)
  • FRFrance≈1 in 39K
  • CACanada≈1 in 42K

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.

United States (measured from records)

3,177 people, 2010

Sources
273 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)

France, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

French surname derived from Richard; noted as a business family name in the text.

Sources 1

  • Tên Họ Người Việt Nam

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

How Cardin is read(measured from records)

Cardin is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English64%

    Pierre, French fashion designer

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • French18%

    French surname derived from Richard; noted as a business family name in the text.

    as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam

    Dérivé de Ricard.

    as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

  • Spanish7.0%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Cardin in Spanish.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Cardin 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 Cardin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3,1771 in 105K3.2KCardin273
BR Brazil2,0001 in 106K2K—1
FR France≈1,700 est.≈1 in 39K220—5
IT Italy≈1,000 est.≈1 in 60KlistedCardin22
CA Canada≈910 est.≈1 in 42K—Cardin68
NZ New Zealand≈52 est.≈1 in 94K—Cardin3
IS Iceland≈8 est.≈1 in 43K—Cardin1

3,177 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)

Cardin is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Canada, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Cardín

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Argentina, Mexico

    Also written Cardín, Cardiñ

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Cardín

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Canada, Spain

    Also written Cardín

  • Greek surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, United States

    Also written Cardín

45 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Cardin is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, redução popular e coloquial de Riccardino

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In Italian, Variante di Riccardi

    as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani

  • In Catalan, inflection of cardar:

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

18001850190019502000Louis-Pierre-Paul Cardin, b. 1840Arthur Cardin, b. 1879Meyer Cardin, b. 1907Lucien Cardin, b. 1919Pierre Cardin, b. 1922Claude Cardin, b. 1941Ben Cardin, b. 1943Serge Cardin, b. 1950Jon S. Cardin, b. 1970Sara Cardin, b. 1987

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)

FormalDear Mr Cardin,
InformalHi Cardin,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 31 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Cardin
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020003.2K#9,346
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020103.2K#10,155
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020203K#10,212
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—2K#4,872
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961292—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1951281—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1941281—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971248—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991220—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981209—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1921204—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1931203—

Reference works 5

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

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 Cardin mean, and where does it come from?
French surname derived from Richard; noted as a business family name in the text. Recorded by Tên Họ Người Việt Nam.
How do you pronounce Cardin?
A machine transcription gives /ˈkɑɹdɪn/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Cardin have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 3.2 thousand people named Cardin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cardin.
How common is the name Cardin?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,177 people named Cardin in 2010, about 1 in 105 thousand residents.

What do you want to know about Cardin?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Please leave out anyone's personal details (see Privacy).

Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cardin

The 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, “Cardin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

See how Cardin parses inside a full name →