Cardini
surname · Latin script
Meaning: redução coloquial de Riccardini
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/kaɾdini/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Cardini is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 65K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 124K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 525K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 44 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 45K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)redução coloquial de Riccardini
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Cardini 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 45K | listed | Cardini | 21 |
| AR Argentina | 367 | 1 in 124K | 367 | Cardini | 44 |
| US United States | 152 | 1 in 2.2M | 170 | Cardini | 27 |
| FR France | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 529K | 8 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 100 | 1 in 2.1M | 100 | Cardini | 20 |
| UY Uruguay | 52 | 1 in 65K | 52 | Cardini | 6 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 228K | — | Cardini | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 16 | 1 in 525K | 16 | — | 1 |
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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Cardini 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 Italian, Variante di Riccardi
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In Latin, dative singular of cardō
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)- Maria Timpanaro Cardinib. 1890ITItalian classical philologist (1890-1978)
- Cesare Cardinib. 1896ITItalian-Mexican chef (1896-1956)
- Domenico Cardinib. 1913ITItalian architect
- Roberto Cardinib. 1939ITItalian philologist (born 1939)
- Franco Cardinib. 1940ITItalian historian
- Giancarlo Cardinib. 1940ITItalian composer (1940–2022)
- Alessandra Cardinib. 1947ITItalian costume designer and actress
- Anna Cardinib. 1960ITItalian actress
- Jennifer Cardinib. 1974FRFrench musician
- Paolo Cardiniproduct designer
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 367 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 170 | #110,517 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 158 | #104,819 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 152 | #115,034 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 100 | #63,366 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 52 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 28 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 19 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 18 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 16 | #43,070 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 16 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Cardini mean, and where does it come from?
- redução coloquial de Riccardini Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Cardini?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /kaɾdini/; in Italian /kardini/; in Portuguese /kaɾdini/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Cardini have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Cardini in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cardini.
- How common is the name Cardini?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 367 people named Cardini, about 1 in 124 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cardiniThe 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, “Cardini”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.