Carpenter (surname) - Carpenter Name Variants

Carpenter Name Variants

Carpenter name variants include:

• Wright - Woodwright in old England Such as a "wood wright" (wood worker). See also Wainwright (name), from "wain wright" (a wooden wagon maker).
• Carpentier and Charpentier - From the French Norman Carpentier (le Carpentier, le Charpentier), a worker of wood, derived from the late Latin "carpentarius", a maker of wooden carriages. French Surnames > CARPENTIER ++, Forme norm.-picarde de Charpentier; var. du Sud-Ouest et roussillonnase Carpentier. Avecart. Le Carpentier. The surname Charpentier could be the source of other surnames due to the adventurousness of its early French bearers; for example, Francois Charpentier and Joseph Charpentier were Jacobites captured during the 1745 rising while in the French Service. Francois was a native of Dieppe, France captured at Carlisle, Marshalsea, and Joseph was captured at sea and imprisoned at Berwick.

• Zimmermann - German for a worker in wood. Also the variant Simmerman.

• Carpintero - Carpenter in Spanish. A worker in wood, from the Latin "carpentarius".

• Carpender - An English phonetic name variant of Carpenter. Also seen as Carpendar.

• De Carpenter or De Carpentier - Dutch for "the carpenter", a worker of wood, from the French Carpentier.

• Mac an tSaoir - Irish for "son of the descendants of the workman", anglicized as MacIntyre or Macintyre, Carpenter (particularly in and around Dublin), and other related names, sometimes incorrectly as Freeman. Carpenter is not an Irish name in origin, but may have been adopted as a result of a 1465 law enacting that "every Irishman that dwells betwixt or amongst Englishmen in the County of Dublin, Myeth, Vriell, and Kildare ... shall take to him an English Surname of ... arte or science, as ... carpenter"; the surname was recorded there as early as 1636 and as late as 1890. In County Kerry, the surname is said to be that of an English family who settled on estates near Tralee as a result of the Irish Rebellion of 1641. After the Restoration in 1660, John Carpenter, Philip Carpenter, Capt. Phillip Carpenter, and Lt. Thomas Carpenter were among the "Forty-Nine (i.e, 1649) Officers" who supported the Royalist cause in the Irish Confederate Wars rewarded with grants of land in Ireland. The 1659 census of County Limerick listed Carpenter as a family surname in Balliea townland, Small County Barony, and among the tituladoes (principal residents) in the barony of Cosmay in Limerick. In 1890, 10 entries for Carpenter were made in Ireland's birth indexes, with 8 in Leinster Province (County Dublin), and 1 each in Munster and Ulster provinces. Many of the MacIntyres of Northern Ireland are believed to be descended from the Scottish Clan MacIntyre whose ancient seat was in Lorn.

• Timmerman - Carpenter in Dutch, a worker of wood, from the German Zimmerman.

• Carpentiere - Carpenter in Italian, a worker of wood, from the Latin "carpentarius".

• Chippie - British and Australian slang for a carpenter. Can be used for either the occupation or surname.

• Tischler and Schreiner, which are also surnames, are German names for woodworking names/professions related to the English word Carpenter.