Cardon

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

• French : from Old Norman French cardon ‘thistle’ (a diminutive of carde, from Latin carduus), hence a topographic name for someone who lived on land overgrown with thistles, an occupational name for someone who carded wool (originally a process carried out with thistles and teasels), or perhaps a nickname for a prickly and unapproachable person.
• French : possibly from a reduced form of the personal name Ricardon, a pet form of Richard.
• English : variant spelling of Carden, cognate with 1.