Carpintéro

surname · Latin script

Carpintéro is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. In Panama it is the 83rd most common surname. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Late Latin carpentārius (“carpenter”), from Latin carpentārius (“wagon-maker, carriage-maker”).

rarermore common
  • PAPanama≈1 in 6K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ESSpain1 in 11K
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 17K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Spain (measured from records)

4,532 people

Sources
113 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 6.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Panama, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Carpintero in ES Spain, VE Venezuela, AR Argentina and 3 more.

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)

Derivation of Carpintéro: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Carpintéro
  1. Late Latincarpentārius“carpenter”(measured from records)
  2. Latincarpentārius“wagon-maker“wagon-maker, carriage-maker”(measured from records)

Inherited from Late Latin carpentārius (“carpenter”), from Latin carpentārius (“wagon-maker, carriage-maker”).

Sources 1

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Carpintéro 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 Carpintéro is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain—4,5321 in 11K4.5KCarpintero109
VE Venezuela—≈1,700 est.≈1 in 17K—Carpintero19
CO Colombia—≈960 est.≈1 in 51K—Carpintero39
PA Panama#83≈650 est.≈1 in 6K44Carpintero15
AR Argentina—4871 in 93K487Carpintero38
UY Uruguay—1061 in 32K106Carpintero10

4,532 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Carpintéro under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Carpintéro mean, and where does it come from?
Inherited from Late Latin carpentārius (“carpenter”), from Latin carpentārius (“wagon-maker, carriage-maker”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Carpintéro have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 4.5 thousand people named Carpintéro, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled carpintero.
How common is the name Carpintéro?
In Spain, the national register counted 4,532 people named Carpintéro, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
How common is Carpintéro compared with other names?
In Panama, Carpintéro is the 83rd most common surname of 39,844 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Carpintéro” — the 83rd most common surname in Panama. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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