Kardoš
surname · Latin script
Kardoš is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: kard (“sword”) + -os (adjective-forming suffix).
- SISlovenia≈1 in 25K(inferred from the name graph)
- HRCroatia1 in 26K
- CZCzechia1 in 99K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 20 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
1,499 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Slovenia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kardos in US United States.
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)
kard (“sword”) + -os (adjective-forming suffix)
Sources 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Családnevek enciklopédiája
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kardoš 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.
1,499 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; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); MVČR — living population register 2017; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- Štefan Kardošb. 1966SIwriter
- Dragotin KardošSIresearcher
- Karel KardošSIresearcher
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 161 | #5,181 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 143 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 108 | #15,619 |
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 Kardoš mean, and where does it come from?
- kard (“sword”) + -os (adjective-forming suffix) Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Kardoš have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Kardoš, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kardos.
- How common is the name Kardoš?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,499 people named Kardoš in 2010, about 1 in 222 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kardo%C5%A1The 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, “Kardoš”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.