Čapo
surname · Latin script
Čapo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Shortening of capotasto, from Italian.
- UYUruguay1 in 4.3K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 22K
- EGEgypt≈1 in 37K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 278 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,800 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Capo in US United States, ES Spain, EG Egypt and 5 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Shortening of capotasto, from Italian.
Sources 4
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Čapo 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Capo | 28 |
| TN Tunisia | #227 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Capo | 9 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,313 | 1 in 22K | 2.3K | Capo | 94 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 30K | listed | Capo | 34 |
| US United States | — | 1,952 | 1 in 170K | 2K | Capo | 278 |
| UY Uruguay | #746 | 787 | 1 in 4.3K | 787 | Capo | 26 |
| AL Albania | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | — | Capo | 22 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #496 | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | — | Capo | 16 |
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 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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 Čapo mean, and where does it come from?
- Shortening of capotasto, from Italian. Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Čapo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.8 thousand people named Čapo in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled capo.
- Where is Čapo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Čapo is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 4.3 thousand people — even though Egypt holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Čapo?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,313 people named Čapo, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
- How common is Čapo compared with other names?
- In Tunisia, Čapo is the 227th most common surname of 37,763 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C4%8DapoThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Čapo” — the 227th most common surname in Tunisia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.