Cardosos Surname

1,155,901st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 207 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Brazil
Highest density in:
Brazil

Cardosos Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Cardosos Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Brazil1871:1,144,78339,854
Argentina131:3,287,955132,850
United States31:120,819,6441,331,040
France21:33,211,361423,184
Colombia11:47,774,07244,230
Portugal11:10,418,24125,048

Cardosos Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Cardosos Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Cardosos is borne by more people in Brazil than any other country/territory. It may occur as:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Cardosos? popularity and diffusion

The surname Cardosos is the 1,155,901st most widely held surname at a global level It is held by approximately 1 in 35,205,536 people. The surname occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 99 percent of Cardosos are found; 97 percent are found in South America and 90 percent are found in Luso-South America.

Cardosos is most frequently held in Brazil, where it is borne by 187 people, or 1 in 1,144,783. In Brazil Cardosos is most frequent in: São Paulo, where 19 percent reside, Bahia, where 13 percent reside and Pará, where 8 percent reside. Without taking into account Brazil this last name is found in 5 countries. It is also found in Argentina, where 6 percent reside and The United States, where 1 percent reside.

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Cardosos
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