Cardinal

Cardinal is the 7,433rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,321 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 69,200.

By the numbers

People: 4,321
Rank: 7,433rd
How common: 1 in 69,200
Per 100,000: 1.5

Where the name comes from

Origin French

From fr-CA Cardinal, from French cardinal, from Latin cardinālis.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.3%
Black, not Hispanic 1.0%

Notable people called Cardinal

Lorne Cardinal (born 1964)Canadian actor and director
Tantoo Cardinal (born 1950)Canadian actress
Marie Cardinal (1928–2001)French-Canadian novelist, journalist and actress
Brian Cardinal (born 1977)American basketball player
Julien Le Cardinal (born 1997)French association football player

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

Surnames like Cardinal

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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.