Kapus

surname · Latin script

Meaning: porter, doorman

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

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

Kapus is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SISlovenia1 in 16K(measured from records)
  • HRCroatia1 in 423K
  • CZCzechia1 in 595K

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.

United States (measured from records)

185 people, 2010

Sources
7 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

porter, doorman

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kapus 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 Kapus is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1851 in 1.8M187Kapus4
SI Slovenia1311 in 16K131Kapus4
CZ Czechia181 in 595K18——
HR Croatia101 in 423K11Kapus7

185 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)

Kapus is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Slovak surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Czechia

    Languages: Slovak, Czech

    Also written Kapuš, Kápuš

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Kapuš

  • Polish name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Kapuś, Kapuš

21 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)

Kapus 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 phi-pro, to run out of supplies, lack something needed

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

  • In Latvian, accusative plural of kaps

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

  • In tbk, last child

    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)

188019001920194019601980Gyula Kapus, b. 1897Franz Kapus, b. 1909Franc Kapus, b. 1934Sergej Kapus, b. 1950Richard Kapuš, b. 1973Krisztián Kapus, b. 1974

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)

FormalDear Kapus,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Kapus
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000187#91,404
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010185#98,099
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020182#104,723
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—131#3,443
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202111—
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202110#31,388
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Kapus mean, and where does it come from?
porter, doorman Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Kapus?
A machine transcription gives /kəpəs/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Kapus have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 185 people named Kapus, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kapus.
Where is Kapus most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kapus is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 16 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Kapus?
In the United States, the national register counted 185 people named Kapus in 2010, about 1 in 1.8 million 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, “Kapus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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