as a Last Name
- 8,257
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Carden
Meaning & Origins
English: 1. from Anglo-Norman French cardon ‘thistle’ (a diminutive of carde, from Latin carduus), probably applied as a topographic name for someone who lived on a patch of land overgrown with thistles, as an occupational name for someone involved in the carding of wool, originally carried out with thistle and teasel heads, or as a nickname for a prickly and unapproachable person. 2. habitational name from Carden in Cheshire, which is recorded in the mid 13th century in the form Kawrdin and in the early 14th century as Cawardyn; it is probably named with Old English carr ‘rock’ + worðign ‘enclosure’.
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 8,257
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Alabama
- has the most people named Carden per capita
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