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The surname CARDENAS, has its origin in the place called Cárdenas, a small town in the Rioja province of Spain. It is a toponimic surname.
A grandson of the IX Lord of Vizcaya, López Díaz de Haro,
was Sancho López de Cárdenas, who was the first Lord of the town of Cárdenas, and hence the surname.
From the north of Spain the family spread southward in the Reconquista, and from Andalucía to the New World.
There might have been Jews with the surname Cárdenas, but it is not a Sephardic surname, (what ever that might be).
The first Cárdenas lived in the first half of the XIII century.
Sincerely,
Nicolás de Cárdenas.
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