Capitó

surname · Latin script

Capitó is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Two main origins: * Borrowed from Italian Capito or Capitò, a reduced form of the personal name Agapito. * Borrowed from German Capito, a Latinized form of the surnames Haupt or Kopf.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 33K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 588K
  • CUCuba≈1 in 133K

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.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈3,300 people, est.

Sources
174 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)

Philippines, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Capito in PH Philippines, US United States, BR Brazil and 6 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)

Derivation of Capitó: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Capitó
  1. Italian Capitoor(measured from records)
  2. GermanCapito(measured from records)

Two main origins: * Borrowed from Italian Capito or Capitò, a reduced form of the personal name Agapito. * Borrowed from German Capito, a Latinized form of the surnames Haupt or Kopf.

Sources 1

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Capitó 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 Capitó is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines≈3,300 est.≈1 in 33K—Capito44
US United States5661 in 588K705Capito174
BR Brazil3901 in 543K390Capito41
DE Germany≈240 est.≈1 in 338K—Capito50
IT Italy≈170 est.≈1 in 379K—Capito6
SA Saudi Arabia≈120 est.≈1 in 279K—Capito8
CU Cuba≈83 est.≈1 in 133K—Capito2
PT Portugal≈47 est.≈1 in 219K—Capito18
JM Jamaica≈17 est.≈1 in 162K—Capito1

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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)

Capitó is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Capitò, Capito

  • Italian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Italy, United States, Ecuador

    Also written Capito, Capitò

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Capitó under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Capitó mean, and where does it come from?
Two main origins: * Borrowed from Italian Capito or Capitò, a reduced form of the personal name Agapito. * Borrowed from German Capito, a Latinized form of the surnames Haupt or Kopf. Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Capitó have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.3 thousand people named Capitó in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled capito.
How common is the name Capitó?
In the United States, the national register counted 566 people named Capitó in 2010, about 1 in 588 thousand 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, “Capitó”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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