About the Cardinali Surname

Records tie Cardinali closely to Cardinale. The family name meaning is “Cardinal”, the same as for Cardinale.

• Related forms: Cardinal.
• The 2010 census count for Cardinali in the United States was 307, good for rank 64,721. That puts it among the top 100,000 US surnames. French birth records list 341 children named Cardinali between 1891 and 2000.
• Cardinali and Cardinale differ only in the final vowel; Italian surnames often appear in both a singular and a plural form.
• Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.

Family crest and blazon

Arms linked to Cardinale and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Research your Cardinali family history with a full surname report and painted coat of arms.