Capí
surname · Latin script
Capí is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: forma plural de Capo.
- UYUruguay1 in 48K(measured from records)
- MXMexico≈1 in 160K
- FRFrance≈1 in 660Kfew records
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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 60 (measured from records)
- 1 in 48K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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 Capi in MX Mexico, IN India, BR Brazil and 4 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)forma plural de Capo.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Capí is found
(measured from records)Capí 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Capi | 2 |
| MX Mexico | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 163K | 14 | Capi | 42 |
| IT Italy | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 184K | listed | Capi | 4 |
| BR Brazil | 272 | 1 in 778K | 272 | Capi | 30 |
| BO Bolivia | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Capi | 11 |
| UY Uruguay | 70 | 1 in 48K | 70 | Capi | 13 |
| PT Portugal | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 496K | — | Capi | 4 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Capí mean, and where does it come from?
- forma plural de Capo. Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Capí?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Capí in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled capi. After it come Mexico, Italy, Brazil and Bolivia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Capí most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Capí is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 48 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Capí?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 272 people named Capí, about 1 in 778 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Capí?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cap%C3%ADThe 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, “Capí”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.