Cerdan: Last Name and Heraldic Notes

There is no single Cerdan family crest for all bearers; the honest first step is to find out which Cerdan line, if any, bore arms.

In the records

Cerdan shows up clearly in national surname statistics.

The meaning of Cerdan is not given in the reference works we use for these short pages; a full report traces it from your own family's records. Census returns, passenger lists and civil registers are the best places to follow a Cerdan line back. INSEE counts 1,462 people born in France with the Cerdan surname between 1891 and 2000; the busiest decade was 1961–1970. The 2010 census count for Cerdan in the United States was 260, good for rank 74,375. 59% of them identified as Hispanic or Latino.

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