Cardenas, de Cárdenas, Cárdena, Carden, Cardo, Cardenoza, Cardeño, Barcenas
Cárdenas is a
locational surname originating in
La Rioja,
Spain. In Spain, Cárdenas is the 287th most frequently surname, accounting for 0.37% of the population. It is the 296th most popular surname in the Spanish autonomous community of
Catalonia.[1]
Etymology
This habitational surname derives from places named Cárdenas in the provinces of
Almería, in Andalusia, and
Logroño, in La Rioja. It comes from the feminine plural of cárdeno, meaning "blue" or "bluish purple", by way of the Latin cardinus, from carduus ("thistle").[2]
^Dictionary of American Surnames, ed. Patrick Hanks, Oxford University Press, 2003, p. 287
Surname list
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surnameCárdenas. If an
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