Charpentier

2,828 people in the United States were counted with the surname Charpentier in the 2020 census, making it the 10,779th most common in the country. That is about one person in 106,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,828
Rank: 10,779th
How common: 1 in 106,000
Per 100,000: 0.95

Where the name comes from

Origin French

From French Charpentier, from Latin carpentarius.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 86.8%
Hispanic or Latino 4.6%
Black, not Hispanic 3.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Charpentier

Emmanuelle Charpentier (born 1968)French microbiologist and biochemist
Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643–1704)17th-century French composer
Gustave Charpentier (1860–1956)French composer
Robert Charpentier (1916–1966)French racing cyclist
Constance Marie Charpentier (1767–1849)French painter
Megan Charpentier (born 2001)American-Canadian actress
Jean de Charpentier (1786–1855)German-Swiss geologist
Alexandre Charpentier (1856–1909)French artist

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

Surnames like Charpentier

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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.