# Charpentier (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/charpentier/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from French.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | French |
| Type | occupational, named after the work an ancestor did |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 2,891 |
| US rank (2010) | 11,003 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 106,795 people |
| Change since 2000 | +4.8% (2,758 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From French Charpentier, from Latin carpentarius. Doublet of Carpenter.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Charpentier in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 89% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 3.7% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.5% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.9% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 1.2% |
| Two or more races | 1.8% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Charpentier in the Kingdom of France and Canada.

## People named Charpentier

- Marc-Antoine Charpentier, 17th-century French composer
- Megan Charpentier, American-Canadian actress

## Similar surnames

Carpenter, Carpentier, Cervantes, Corbin, Craven, Carbone, Cravens, Cervantez, Charbonneau, Crippen, Carbonell, Charboneau.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.