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The CARDINAL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,367 7063 0.002 16
United States (1880 census) 350 12720 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +4017 +5657 +0.001 +9
Other Countries
Australia 73 18623 0 4
United Kingdom 94 24247 0 2
Top States for CARDINAL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 465 1092 0.009 95
Michigan 352 3136 0.004 35
New York 331 5491 0.002 17
Massachusetts 277 2936 0.004 44
Indiana 264 2728 0.004 43
Top States for CARDINAL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 83 1209 0.014 136
Minnesota 465 1092 0.009 95
Delaware 69 1902 0.009 88
New Hampshire 91 1998 0.007 74
Wyoming 23 2648 0.005 47

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called CARDINAL live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CARDINAL represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CARDINAL in Minnesota than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CARDINAL by picking someone at random in Vermont than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CARDINAL

Region of origin: Europe

Name derivation: Status Name

Ethnic distribution of CARDINAL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 74 1.69
Mixed Race 61 1.4
Black/African American 47 1.08
Native American/Alaskan 40 0.92
Asian/Pacific 37 0.85
White (Caucasian) 4,108 94.07

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the CARDINAL surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of CARDINAL in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of CARDINAL.

Similar names to CARDINAL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CARDINAL.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for CARDINAL

The following words are slight variants of CARDINAL that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.