Cardenas

Cardenas is the 421st most common surname in the United States, shared by 75,996 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 3,933.

By the numbers

People: 75,996
Rank: 421st
How common: 1 in 3,933
Per 100,000: 25.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

From Spanish Cárdenas.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Cardenas described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 93.0%
White, not Hispanic 4.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Cardenas

Lázaro Cárdenas (1895–1970)51st President of Mexico
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano (born 1934)Mexican politician
Javier Cárdenas (1952–2022)Mexican footballer
Javier Valdez Cárdenas (1967–2017)Mexican crime journalist and murder victim
Elsa Cárdenas (born 1935)Mexican actress
Osiel Cárdenas Guillén (born 1967)Mexican drug lord incarcerated in a US federal prison
Steve Cardenas (born 1974)American martial artist
Tony Cárdenas (born 1963)American politician

People named Cardenas with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Cardenas

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.