Capote
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: cloak
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/kaˈpo.t̪e/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Capote is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country.
- 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
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)‘maker of capes and cloaks’; from Spanish capote ‘hooded cloak, cape’
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Capote is read
(measured from records)Capote is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish58%
cloak
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English32%
‘maker of capes and cloaks’; from Spanish capote ‘hooded cloak, cape’
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
A long coat or cloak with a hood.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Truman, US author
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Capote 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Capote is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, bonnet (British), hood (US) (of a car)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, greatcoat
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)- Domingo Méndez Capoteb. 1863CUCuban military and politician (1863-1934)
- Renée Méndez Capoteb. 1901CUCuban author and activist (1901-1989)
- Truman Capoteb. 1924USAmerican writer (1924-1984)
- Julio Capoteb. 1932CUCuban actor
- Ramón Capote del Villarb. 1945ESresearcher (ORCID 0000-0001-7901-9983)
- Marita Capoteb. 1961VEVenezuelan actor
- Tatiana Capoteb. 1962CUVenezuelan telenovela icon and former beauty queen
- Edith Lozab. 1978ECnot in their usual namebadminton player
- Abdiel Jover CapoteCUmarine biologist and university teacher
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.9K | #14,676 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.8K | #2,630 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.8K | #2,630 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.8K | #16,100 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.4K | #18,407 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 897 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- Where does the name Capote come from?
- ‘maker of capes and cloaks’; from Spanish capote ‘hooded cloak, cape’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Capote?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /kaˈpo.t̪e/ (Wiktionary); in English /kəˈpəʊt/ (Wiktionary).
- What does the name Capote mean?
- In Spanish, cloak
- In which country does Capote have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.2 thousand people named Capote in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled capote.
- Where is Capote most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Capote 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 Capote?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,813 people named Capote, about 1 in 28 thousand residents.
- How common is Capote compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, Capote is the 594th most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/capoteThe 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, “Capote” — the 594th most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.