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cardon Name Meaning and History

  1. French: from Old Norman French cardon ‘thistle’ (a diminutive of carde, from Latin carduus), hence a topographic name for someone who lived on land overgrown with thistles, an occupational name for someone who carded wool (originally a process carried out with thistles and teasels), or perhaps a nickname for a prickly and unapproachable person.
  2. French: possibly from a reduced form of the personal name Ricardon, a pet form of Richard.
  3. English: variant spelling of Carden, cognate with 1.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of cardon Families in the US in 1920
Number of cardon families
 11-20
 4-10
 1-3
 0
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