Capó

surname · Latin script

Meaning: hood of an automobile

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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

rarermore common
  • 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)

≈2,800 people, est.

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
278 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

CapóLatin(measured from records)
คาโปThai(measured from records)
ЧапоCyrillic(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)

hood of an automobile

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Capó 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 Capó is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
EG Egypt—≈2,800 est.≈1 in 37K—Capo28
TN Tunisia#227≈2,300 est.≈1 in 5K—Capo9
ES Spain—2,3131 in 22K2.3KCapo94
IT Italy—≈2,100 est.≈1 in 30KlistedCapo34
US United States—1,9521 in 170K2KCapo278
UY Uruguay#7467871 in 4.3K787Capo26
AL Albania—≈450 est.≈1 in 6.9K—Capo22
PR Puerto Rico#496≈380 est.≈1 in 8.5K—Capo16

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).

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

Capó is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Capò, Capo, Čapo

  • Russian surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States, Spain, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Capo, Капо, Kapo, Càpo, Čäpő

  • Hungarian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States, Spain

    Also written Capo, Cápo, Čapo, Čápő

  • Indonesian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Tunisia, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Capo, Čāpő

15 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)

Capó is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Catalan, castrated animal

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

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)

18001850190019502000Rafael Capó, b. 1815Miquel del Sants Capó Oliver, b. 1904Bernat Capó, b. 1919Bobby Capó, b. 1921Bernat Capó García, b. 1928Joan Capó, b. 1954Ángel Espinosa, b. 1966Rodrigo Capó Ortega, b. 1980Cris Capó, b. 1981

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 1 sources across 0 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 Capó mean, and where does it come from?
hood of an automobile Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Capó have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.8 thousand people named Capó in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled capo.
Where is Capó most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Capó 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 Capó?
In Spain, the national register counted 2,313 people named Capó, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
How common is Capó compared with other names?
In Tunisia, Capó is the 227th most common surname of 37,763 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Capó” — the 227th most common surname in Tunisia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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