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The CHARPENTIER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,758 10647 0.001 10
United States (1880 census) 165 22135 0 3
Change since 1880 +2593 +11488 +N/A +7
Other Countries
Australia 4 179885 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for CHARPENTIER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 562 1098 0.013 126
Massachusetts 316 2637 0.005 50
Rhode Island 267 439 0.025 255
Florida 185 9522 0.001 12
Minnesota 176 3629 0.004 36
Top States for CHARPENTIER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 267 439 0.025 255
Louisiana 562 1098 0.013 126
New Hampshire 92 1999 0.007 74
Massachusetts 316 2637 0.005 50
Maine 61 3094 0.005 48

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

Classification and Origin of CHARPENTIER

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the CHARPENTIER surname.

Ethnic distribution of CHARPENTIER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 59 2.14
White (Hispanic) 44 1.6
Mixed Race 35 1.27
Asian/Pacific 22 0.8
Native American/Alaskan 13 0.47
White (Caucasian) 2,585 93.73

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

CHARPENTIER is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of CHARPENTIER in historical publications

CHARPENTIER. Fr. A carpenter. The family bearing the name are obliged to submit to the Anglo-French pronunciation {iliarpcnteer !

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 CHARPENTIER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHARPENTIER.

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 CHARPENTIER

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