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

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'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.

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.