Cardinal Family History
Cardinal Name Meaning
English, French, Spanish, and Dutch: from Middle English, Old
French cardinal ‘cardinal’, the church dignitary (Latin
cardinalis, originally an adjective meaning ‘crucial’). The
surname may have denoted a servant who worked in a cardinal’s
household, but was probably more often bestowed as a nickname on
someone who habitually dressed in red or who had played the part of a
cardinal in a pageant, or on one who acted in a lordly and patronizing
manner, like a prince of the Church.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Cardinal Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cardinal families
 14 - 25  5 - 13 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Cardinal last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Cardinal Family Origin
Cardinal Emigration Information (US)
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Cardinal Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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