Charpentier
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: carpenter
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʃaʁpɑ̃tje/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Charpentier is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 3.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 35K
- USUnited States1 in 115K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 307 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
A surname from French. (Carpenter)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Charpentier is read(measured from records)
Charpentier is one spelling over 2 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.
- French70%
carpenter
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
de charpentier, surnom d’après le métier.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
- English22%
A surname from French. (Carpenter)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Charpentier 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #140 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | 2.6K | Charpentier | 307 |
| CN China | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 126K | — | Charpentier | 1 |
| US United States | — | 2,891 | 1 in 115K | 2.9K | Charpentier | 220 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Charpentier | 106 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 377K | — | Charpentier | 7 |
| BE Belgium | #783 | 642 | 1 in 18K | 655 | Charpentier | 49 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 605 | 1 in 8.4K | 605 | — | — |
| LA Laos | — | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Charpentier | 2 |
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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Marc-Antoine Charpentierb. 1643FR17th-century French composer
- Jean de Charpentierb. 1786DEGerman-Swiss geologist (1786-1855)
- Marguerite Charpentierb. 1848FRFrench salon-holder and painter
- Gustave Charpentierb. 1860FRFrench composer (1860-1956)
- Annabellab. 1907FRnot in their usual nameFrench cinema actress (1907–1996)
- Robert Charpentierb. 1916FRFrench racing cyclist (1916–1966)
- Jacques Charpentierb. 1933FRFrench composer (1933-2017)
- Romain Goupilb. 1951FRnot in their usual nameFrench screenwriter, actor and film director (born 1951)
- Emmanuelle Charpentierb. 1968FRFrench microbiologist and biochemist (born 1968)
- Megan Charpentierb. 2001CAAmerican-Canadian actress
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 31 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 3.5K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 3.5K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 3.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 2.9K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.9K | #11,003 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.8K | #10,779 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.8K | #10,647 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 2.8K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 2.7K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 2.6K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 2.5K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 2.2K | — |
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
- Where does the name Charpentier come from?
- A surname from French. (Carpenter) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Charpentier?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃaʁpɑ̃tje/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Charpentier mean?
- In French, carpenter
- In which country does Charpentier have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Charpentier in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled charpentier.
- How common is the name Charpentier?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,891 people named Charpentier in 2010, about 1 in 115 thousand residents.
- How common is Charpentier compared with other names?
- In France, Charpentier is the 140th most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/charpentierThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Charpentier” — the 140th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.