How common is the surname Kardos?

1,499 people in the United States had the surname Kardos in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 205,968 Americans. It ranked 18,457th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Kardos?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Kardos identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Kardos getting more or less common?

More common. 1,403 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,499 in 2010, up 6.8%.

The surname Kardos

A Hungarian surname, carried by 1,499 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex K632

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kardos is more common than 88.6% of them.

Origin

Hungarian origin

Borrowed from Hungarian Kardos.

One of 46 Hungarian surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,499 people named Kardos in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 205,968 Americans. That is up 6.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,403.

#18,457

rank among US surnames

1,499

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+6.8%

change since 2000 (was #18,256)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#18,448	Ristau	1,500	205,830
#18,457	Weakland	1,499	205,968

Who is named Kardos

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

93% of people named Kardos identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.3%
Two or more races 2.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Kardos

Kardashian

Kardos has the Soundex code K632, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K632.

Other Hungarian surnames

All 46 Hungarian surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Kardos come from?: Borrowed from Hungarian Kardos.
How common is the surname Kardos?: 1,499 people in the United States had the surname Kardos in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 205,968 Americans. It ranked 18,457th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kardos?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Kardos identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Kardos getting more or less common?: More common. 1,403 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,499 in 2010, up 6.8%.