Carpenter

Carpenter is the 247th most common surname in the United States, shared by 124,364 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 2,403.

By the numbers

People: 124,364
Rank: 247th
How common: 1 in 2,403
Per 100,000: 41.6

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

From carpenter, from Latin carpentarius.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Carpenter described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 83.0%
Black, not Hispanic 8.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Carpenter

Sabrina Carpenter (born 1999)American singer-songwriter and actress
John Carpenter (born 1948)American filmmaker, composer and actor
Karen Carpenter (1950–1983)American singer and drummer
Scott Carpenter (1925–2013)American test pilot, astronaut and aquanaut
Jennifer Carpenter (born 1979)American actress
Charisma Carpenter (born 1970)American actress
Edward Carpenter (1844–1929)English utopian socialist, poet and activist
Richard Carpenter (born 1946)American pop musician

People named Carpenter with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Carpenter

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.