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cardell Name Meaning and History

  1. Probably a reduced form of Irish and Scottish McArdle.
  2. Catalan or Asturian-Leonese: probably a topographic from a diminutive of card ‘thistle’ (Latin cardus), or, less likely, a habitational name from a place so named in Asturies.
  3. Possibly an altered form of Italian Cardelli or Cardello.
  4. Perhaps an Americanized spelling of German Kardel (see Kardell).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of cardell Families in the US in 1920
Number of cardell families
 15-28
 6-14
 1-5
 0
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Cardell family of VT g_ebbes 0
Thomas Cardell Royal Marine 1790s petermason1 0
Locating family members Mary Lisa Cardell 25
CARDELL Nelle Peck 1913-1994 t42Moore 0
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Ralph E. CARDELL obit 1952 Obits101 0
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Any Virginia Anne Cardell Williams 22

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