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The CARDENAS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 56,618 529 0.021 210
United States (1880 census) 219 18043 0 4
Change since 1880 +56399 +17514 +N/A +206
Other Countries
Australia 49 25684 0 3
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for CARDENAS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 18,213 182 0.054 538
Texas 14,732 191 0.071 707
Florida 4,311 568 0.027 270
Illinois 2,572 573 0.021 207
Arizona 2,306 292 0.045 449
Top States for CARDENAS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 14,732 191 0.071 707
California 18,213 182 0.054 538
Arizona 2,306 292 0.045 449
Nevada 808 334 0.040 404
New Mexico 676 334 0.037 372

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

Classification and Origin of CARDENAS

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Spain

Language of origin: Spanish

Ethnic origin: Iberian

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CARDENAS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the CARDENAS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of CARDENAS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 589 1.04
Mixed Race 232 0.41
Black/African American 164 0.29
Native American/Alaskan 91 0.16
White (Hispanic) 52,632 92.96
White (Caucasian) 2,910 5.14

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

Meaning of CARDENAS in historical publications

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

Similar names to CARDENAS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CARDENAS.

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 CARDENAS

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