Meaning of Last Name

Meaning: worker or fixer of wood, builder of wood

Carpenter is a surname. Its use as a forename or middle name is rare. Within the United States, it is ranked as the 189th-most common surname. The English meaning of [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/carpenter carpenter] is one who makes wooden objects and structures by shaping wood. *See List of people with surname Carpenter - for real people. *See List of fictional characters with surname Carpenter - for fictional people. *See Carpenter (disambiguation) for Carpenter named communities, natural features, and manmade features. *See Historic Carpenter Houses for houses, homes, shops, homesteads, farmsteads, or other partially named or hyphenated named places with "Carpenter" or a similar meaning name.