Cardon Family History
Cardon Name Meaning
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.French: possibly
from a reduced form of the personal name Ricardon, a pet form
of Richard.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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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Cardon
Name Distribution of Cardon Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cardon families
 11 - 20  4 - 10 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Cardon families
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16 - 30 6 - 15 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cardon families
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6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Cardon Family Origin
Cardon Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Cardon
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Cardon Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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