Cartier

At the 2020 census, 2,767 Americans bore the surname Cartier — 10,981st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 108,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,767
Rank: 10,981st
How common: 1 in 108,000
Per 100,000: 0.93

Where the name comes from

The rural municipality is named after Canadian politician George-Étienne Cartier (1814 - 1873).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 83.9%
Black, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 4.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Cartier

Jacques Cartier (1492–1557)Breton maritime explorer of North America
George-Étienne Cartier (1814–1873)Canadian politician and lawyer
Pierre Cartier (1932–2024)French mathematician
Albert Cartier (born 1960)French footballer
Louis Cartier (1875–1942)jeweler

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

Surnames like Cartier

Also a first name

Cartier has been given to 2,785 American babies as a first name since 1983, peaking in 2022. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.