Carpén

surname · Latin script

Carpén is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • GYGuyana1 in 11K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 103K
  • ESSpain1 in 1.3M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

179 people, 2010

Sources
6 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)

Guyana

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Carpen in FI Finland.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Romanian

subst. 1. - din Valeni (Draj I) ; Carpan, R. (Drag 143) ; jupin, cismar, 1805 (BCI XI 93). 2. COrpenis, Stanciul 1620 olt (An C VI 492). Carsoti v. Carsu 3.

Sources 1

  • Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Carpén counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Carpén is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1791 in 1.9M181—1
GY Guyana671 in 11K67——
BR Brazil651 in 3.3M65——
FI Finland541 in 103K54Carpen6
ES Spain381 in 1.3M38——
CH Switzerland61 in 1.4M6——

179 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Carpén is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Brazil, Romania

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Carpen, Carpeñ

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Carpen

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Carpen

  • Norwegian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Carpen

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Carpén
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—54#21,128
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—32—

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Carpén have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 179 people named Carpén, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Carpén most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Carpén is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Carpén?
In the United States, the national register counted 179 people named Carpén in 2010, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Carpén”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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