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The Pardi surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 770 people carried this name — #30,367 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 384,600 people counted. That is up 1% from 759 in 2000.

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What the name means

The meaning of the Pardi surname

A surname originating as a patronymic.

Patronymic from the personal name Pardo.

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Pardi» (Italian), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

In Argentina’s national register

At least 224 people named Pardi live in Argentina.

RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they live today

Buenos Aires Province 126
Santa Fe 50
City of Buenos Aires 29
Santiago del Estero 19

RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.

In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 70 people named Pardi.

16 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 8 départements, most often Bouches-du-Rhône.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they were born

Born outside France 16
Bouches-du-Rhône 22
Alpes-Maritimes 11
Corsica 11
Var 4
Yvelines 3
Moselle 1
Paris 1
Val-d’Oise 1

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In Switzerland’s population statistics

40 people named Pardi live in Switzerland.

They live in 4 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Ticino.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Ticino 27
Zurich 5
Basel-Landschaft 4
St. Gallen 4

Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.

Who carried it

People named Pardi,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Carmelo Pardi 1822–1875 · literary scholar
  • Carmelo Pardi 1822–1875 · literary scholar
  • Francesco Pardi 1869–1942 · physician
  • Leo Pardi 1915–1990 · ethologist
  • Leo Pardi 1915–1990 · ethologist
  • Paul Pardi 1920–1944 · SOE agent

Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

When the index is not enough

This page says where Pardi is.
A volume says what happened to it.

Every page in the index is free and stays free. The Heritage Volume is the long form: the full paper trail, the arms, the crossing — bound, and yours.

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