Place
Cardona surname meaning
A Catalan habitational surname from Cardona in Barcelona province, a place-name of pre-Roman origin.
The short story
Cardona is a Catalan habitational surname from the town of Cardona in Barcelona province. Surname dictionaries note that the place-name itself is pre-Roman in origin; the family name simply marks someone from that locality or associated with it. De Cardona appears when the preposition is kept in older records. The surname spread with Catalan and broader Iberian migration into Latin America and from there into the United States. It is not an occupational or patronymic formation. Place is high confidence for the Cardona-town origin.
Also seen as: Cardona, de Cardona
Sources used
- Geneanet / DAFN entry for Cardona (Catalan habitational from Cardona, Barcelona province; pre-Roman name)
- Ancestry / DAFN Cardona habitational consensus
- Names2020_LastNames_RaceHispanic_Top1000.xlsx (2020 Census)