as a Last Name
- 4,322
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Cardinal
Meaning & Origins
English, French, Spanish, and Dutch: from Middle English, Old French cardinal ‘cardinal’, the church dignitary (Latin cardinalis, originally an adjective meaning ‘crucial’). The surname may have denoted a servant who worked in a cardinal's household, but was probably more often bestowed as a nickname on someone who habitually dressed in red or who had played the part of a cardinal in a pageant, or on one who acted in a lordly and patronizing manner, like a prince of the Church.
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 4,322
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Vermont
- has the most people named Cardinal per capita
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