Cartier

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in French: playing card maker

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/kaʁtje/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Cartier is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 8K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CACanada≈1 in 26K
  • USUnited States1 in 116K

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.

France (inferred from the name graph)

≈8,400 people, est.

Sources
277 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 8.0K (inferred from the name graph)

France, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

playing card maker

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

How Cartier is read(measured from records)

Cartier is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • French49%

    playing card maker

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    soit de (Le) Cartier, nom de plusieurs localités à travers la France, ou de carretier, forme régionale de charretier

    as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

  • English40%

    jewelry retailer; pers. name

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • Spanish5.3%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Cartier in Spanish.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Cartier 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 Cartier is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France#468≈8,400 est.≈1 in 8K988Cartier277
US United States—2,8731 in 116K2.9KCartier177
CA Canada—≈1,400 est.≈1 in 26K1Cartier105
GB United Kingdom—≈770 est.≈1 in 86KlistedCartier22
IT Italy—≈340 est.≈1 in 181K1Cartier6
CH Switzerland—3281 in 26K328Cartier22

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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)

Cartier is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname12 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Cartièr, Cartiér, Cártier, Cärtier, Cârtïér

  • Spanish surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Mexico, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Cârtiêr, Cartiér, Cartièr, Cärtïer, Cärtier

  • Indonesian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, Indonesia, United Kingdom

    Also written Cartiér

  • Greek surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Καρτιε

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Cartiér

56 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Cartier is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Romanian, quarter, district (part of town), neighbourhood

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1400160018002000Jacques Cartier, b. 1491George-Étienne Cartier, b. 1814Louis-François Cartier, b. 1819Louis Cartier, b. 1875Jacques Cartier, b. 1884Rudolph Cartier, b. 1904Walter Cartier, b. 1924Pierre Cartier, b. 1932Caroline Cartier, b. 1948Albert Cartier, b. 1960

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalMadame, Monsieur,Dear Cartier, (English)
InformalMadame, Monsieur,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 34 sources across 22 countries.

Official registers attesting Cartier
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.9K#11,061
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.8K#10,981
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002.7K#10,893
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19511.4K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19611.3K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19411.2K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19711.2K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19211.1K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19811.1K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991988—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1931988—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1901923—

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Cartier mean, and where does it come from?
playing card maker Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Cartier?
A machine transcription gives /kaʁtje/ (IPA) for French.
How common is the name Cartier?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,873 people named Cartier in 2010, about 1 in 116 thousand residents.
How common is Cartier compared with other names?
In France, Cartier is the 468th most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
In which country does Cartier have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 8.4 thousand people named Cartier in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cartier.

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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, “Cartier” — the 468th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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