Capóte
surname · Latin script
Capóte is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from French capot. Doublet of capó.
- UYUruguay1 in 3.8K(measured from records)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 5.5K
- COColombia≈1 in 22K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 167 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,200 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 Capote in VE Venezuela, US United States, ES Spain 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)Borrowed from French capot. Doublet of capó.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Capóte is found
(measured from records)Capóte 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | #594 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | — | Capote | 41 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Capote | 19 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Capote | 49 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,813 | 1 in 28K | 1.8K | Capote | 94 |
| US United States | — | 1,798 | 1 in 185K | 1.9K | Capote | 167 |
| UY Uruguay | #859 | 897 | 1 in 3.8K | 897 | Capote | 20 |
| CU Cuba | #171 | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Capote | 25 |
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Capóte mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from French capot. Doublet of capó. Recorded by Wiktionary and Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Capóte?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.2 thousand people named Capóte in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled capote. After it come Philippines, Colombia, Spain and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Capóte most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Capóte is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 3.8 thousand people — even though Venezuela holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Capóte?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,813 people named Capóte, about 1 in 28 thousand residents.
- How common is Capóte compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, Capóte is the 594th most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Capóte?
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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%B3teThe 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, “Capóte” — the 594th most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.