Last name: CARPENTER
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CARPENTER : This last name is indexed 476,141 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
CARPENTER : 1: English (southern): occupational name for a worker in wood Norman French carpentier (from Late Latin carpentarius ‘cartwright’).2: Americanized form (translation into English) of German Zimmermann French Charpentier Italian Carpentieri or cognates and equivalents in various other languages.
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