Caput

surname · Latin script

Meaning: The head

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/kapy/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Caput is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 64K(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 4.7M
  • BEBelgium1 in 12M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Croatia (measured from records)

66 people, 2021

Sources
53 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 64K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

The head.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Caput counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Caput is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia661 in 64K66——
BR Brazil451 in 4.7M45——
BE Belgium11 in 12M1—1
US United States——listedCaput53
GB United Kingdom———Caput5
NZ New Zealand———Caput1
JM Jamaica———Caput1

66 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Caput is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Colombia, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Çaput

  • Turkish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Netherlands, United States

    Also written Çaput

26 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Caput is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latin, The head. (of human and animals)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Portuguese, that which is located above

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In mqy, to close, cover up

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18601880190019201940Théodore Gaston Caput, b. 1873Louis Caput, b. 1921Jean-Pol Caput, b. 1937

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalMadame, Monsieur,Dear Caput, (English)
InformalMadame, Monsieur,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Caput
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202166#10,935
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202159—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—45#112,812
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20081#175,358
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Caput mean, and where does it come from?
The head. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Caput?
A machine transcription gives /kapy/ (IPA) for French.
In which country does Caput have the most bearers?
In Croatia, the national register counted about 66 people named Caput, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Caput most common?
Caput is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 64 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Caput?
In Croatia, the national register counted 66 people named Caput in 2021, about 1 in 64 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Caput”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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