Cardosa
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kɑɹˈdoʊsə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cardosa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Galician and Portuguese Cardosa.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 96K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 352K
- BRBrazil1 in 78K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 149 (measured from records)
- 1 in 78K (inferred from the name graph)
2,699 people
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Galician and Portuguese Cardosa.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cardosa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 2,699 | 1 in 78K | 2.7K | Cardosa | 36 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 96K | — | Cardosa | 18 |
| US United States | — | 944 | 1 in 352K | 944 | Cardosa | 149 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 424K | — | Cardosa | 10 |
| ES Spain | — | 322 | 1 in 155K | 322 | Cardosa | 52 |
| HN Honduras | — | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 111K | — | Cardosa | 6 |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 142K | — | Cardosa | 18 |
| HM Heard & McDonald Islands | #550 | — | — | — | Cardosa | 1 |
2,699 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
- Dantes Cardosab. 1976CUCubanian singer (1976-)
- Massimo CardosaITItalian archaeologist
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)
Attested in 14 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.7K | #3,757 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 944 | #25,989 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 922 | #25,221 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 914 | #27,855 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 322 | #11,390 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 322 | #11,386 |
| US United States | wru 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
- What does the name Cardosa mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Galician and Portuguese Cardosa. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Cardosa?
- A machine transcription gives /kɑɹˈdoʊsə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Cardosa have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Cardosa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cardosa.
- Where is Cardosa most common?
- Cardosa is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 78 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Cardosa?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 2,699 people named Cardosa, about 1 in 78 thousand residents.
- How common is Cardosa compared with other names?
- In Heard & McDonald Islands, Cardosa is the 550th most common surname of 1,376 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cardosaThe 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, “Cardosa” — the 550th most common surname in Heard & McDonald Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.