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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern Italian (Sicily and Naples) : from Sicilian carduni ‘thistle’, ‘teasel’, ‘cardoon’, probably a topographic name, but, used figuratively to mean ‘rough’, ‘uncouth’ or ‘stingy’, ‘miserly’, it may also have been a nickname.
  • Italian : from an augmentative form of the personal name Cardo.

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