Kardas
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Perhaps also Greek, a reduced form of Kardassis ‘brother’, from Turkish karda^ ‘brother, comrade’ or from a patronymic derivative of this, e.g
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kɑdəz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kardas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 15K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 26K
- NONorway1 in 114K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 79 (measured from records)
- 1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
2,482 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Perhaps also Greek, a reduced form of Kardassis ‘brother’, from Turkish karda^ ‘brother, comrade’ or from a patronymic derivative of this, e.g. Kardassakis, Kardassiadis, Kardassopoulos.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kardas 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 2,482 | 1 in 15K | 1.3K | Kardas | 79 |
| US United States | 330 | 1 in 1M | 343 | Kardas | 30 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 503K | — | Kardas | 40 |
| HR Croatia | 160 | 1 in 26K | 160 | — | — |
| IT Italy | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 687K | — | Kardas | 5 |
| SE Sweden | 89 | 1 in 115K | 89 | Kardas | 5 |
| NO Norway | 48 | 1 in 114K | 48 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 36 | 1 in 233K | 36 | Kardas | 4 |
2,482 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Kardas is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
from an old Slavic word meaning ‘brother’ or ‘kinsman’, probably denoting a member of a junior branch of an important noble family.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Kilmė ne visai aiški. Greičiausiai vėlesnis perdirbinys iš *Kardaš (žr. Kardašas) — dokumentuose Kardas. Plg. dar lenk. Kardas (S. Rospond, 1973, p. 260), Kordas (ten pat, 364)
as a nameLietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
In Swedish, indefinite genitive singular of karda
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Lithuanian, sabre (sword with a curved blade)
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)
- Joseph Kardasb. 1898Bishop of the Polish National Catholic Church (1898-1990)
- Marian Kardasb. 1962PLPolish sportsperson and volleyball player
- Piotr Kardasb. 1965PLPolish lawyer, Professor of Law at Jagiellonian University
- Łukasz Kardasb. 1983PLPolish rower
- Dan Kardasb. 2000CACanadian ski jumper
- Przemysław KardasPLresearcher
- Halina Worach-KardasPLPolish economist
- Marek KardasPLresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-4810-1025
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 23 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.3K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.3K | #2,388 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.2K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.2K | #2,409 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 343 | #55,849 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 330 | #60,960 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 311 | #68,212 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 89 | #7,911 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 48 | #26,917 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 36 | #23,866 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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
- Where does the name Kardas come from?
- Perhaps also Greek, a reduced form of Kardassis ‘brother’, from Turkish karda^ ‘brother, comrade’ or from a patronymic derivative of this, e.g. Kardassakis, Kardassiadis, Kardassopoulos. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kardas?
- A machine transcription gives /kɑdəz/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Kardas mean?
- Recorded meaning: Perhaps also Greek, a reduced form of Kardassis ‘brother’, from Turkish karda^ ‘brother, comrade’ or from a patronymic derivative of this, e.g.
- In which country does Kardas have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 2.5 thousand people named Kardas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kardas.
- Where is Kardas most common?
- Kardas is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 15 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kardas?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2,482 people named Kardas in 2026, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
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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, “Kardas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.