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The CARPENTER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 127,073 211 0.047 471
United States (1880 census) 37,283 128 0.075 746
Change since 1880 +89790 -83 -0.028 -275
Other Countries
Australia 3,011 518 0.018 184
United Kingdom 13,217 448 0.029 288
Top States for CARPENTER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 9,200 87 0.081 810
California 8,244 379 0.024 243
Texas 8,118 294 0.039 389
North Carolina 7,248 108 0.090 900
Florida 6,465 268 0.040 405
Top States for CARPENTER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 2,422 59 0.134 1,339
Vermont 722 51 0.119 1,186
North Carolina 7,248 108 0.090 900
Mississippi 2,409 153 0.085 847
Ohio 9,200 87 0.081 810

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called CARPENTER live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CARPENTER represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CARPENTER in Ohio than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CARPENTER by picking someone at random in West Virginia than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CARPENTER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CARPENTER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the CARPENTER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of CARPENTER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 762 0.6
Asian/Pacific 572 0.45
White (Caucasian) 111,913 88.07
Black/African American 10,331 8.13
Mixed Race 1,677 1.32
White (Hispanic) 1,817 1.43

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the CARPENTER surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of CARPENTER in historical publications

CARPENTER. The well-known trade. Domcsd. mentions several tenants in cliief under the name of Carpentarii.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to CARPENTER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CARPENTER.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for CARPENTER

The following words are slight variants of CARPENTER that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.