What is the ancestry is the last name Cardell? Irish or spanish?

Close but not plumb. The Scots are not Irish and the Catalans are not Spanish:





Cardell Name Meaning and History





Probably a reduced form of Irish and Scottish McArdle.





Catalan or Asturian-Leonese: probably a topographic from a diminutive of card 鈥榯histle鈥?(Latin cardus), or, less likely, a habitational name from a place so named in Asturies.





Possibly an altered form of Italian Cardelli or Cardello.





Perhaps an Americanized spelling of German Kardel (see Kardell).





Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

What is the ancestry is the last name Cardell? Irish or spanish?
It is British. It is certainly not Spanish.