Carden Family History
Carden Name Meaning
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.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’ + wor{dh}ign ‘enclosure’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Carden Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Carden families
 57 - 112  20 - 56 |
 1 - 19  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Carden families
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105 - 207 36 - 104 |
1 - 35 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Carden families
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8 - 13 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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