Carper Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

England

Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 0
Berkshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 1
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 1
London 0
Middlesex 1
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 5
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 1
Suffolk 0
Somerset 1
Surrey 0
Sussex 1
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 1

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Carper Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Carper family

Profession Census Frequency
Cabinet Maker 1
Farm Labourer 1
House Maid 1
Dress Maker 1
Green Grocer 1
Plough Boy 1
Farm Servant 1
Agricultural Labourer 1
Scholar 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Carper

Name Census Frequency
Mary Carper 33
John Carper 22
William Carper 22
Elizabeth Carper 17
George Carper 16
Hannah Carper 13
Thomas Carper 11
Charles Carper 10
Ann Carper 9
James Carper 9
Jane Carper 9
Edward Carper 8
Henry Carper 8
Sarah Carper 8
Harriet Carper 7
Ellen Carper 6
Robert Carper 6
Alice Carper 5
Eliza Carper 5
Emma Carper 5
Frederick Carper 5
Joseph Carper 5
Kate Carper 5
Margaret Carper 5
Martha Carper 5

Carper Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Corper 83% 2,664
2 Croper 67% 586
3 Carper 100% 402
4 Creeper 57% 394
5 Craper 67% 196

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The surname Carper is the 3rd most popular variant of Corper.

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