Given name & surname

Cardenas

Cardenas is a surname from Spanish. It is used in English, Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano, and 2 other languages.

Original SpanishCárdenas

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Cardenas comes from Spanish.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

In English usage, Cardenas as a surname developed from Cárdenas.

Cardenas’s family of names

In English usage, Cardenas as a surname developed from the Spanish form Cárdenas. In Pangasinan usage, Cardenas as a surname was borrowed from the Spanish form Cárdenas.

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CardenasCárdenas

The ring: across languages.

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