Capră

surname · Latin script

Capră is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Latin capra, from caper, from Proto-Indo-European *kápros.

  • UYUruguay1 in 25K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 32K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 72K

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.

United States (measured from records)

2,352 people, 2010

Record sources
26 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

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 Capra in US United States, ES Spain.

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 Capră: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Capră
  1. Latincapra(measured from records)
  2. Proto-Indo-European*kápros(measured from records)

Inherited from Latin capra, from caper, from Proto-Indo-European *kápros.

Cited for this meaning 1

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Capră 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 Capră is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2,3521 in 141K2.4KCapra5
BR Brazil1,9031 in 111K1.9K——
AR Argentina1,4381 in 32K1.4K——
ES Spain1811 in 276K181Capra7
UY Uruguay1351 in 25K135——
CH Switzerland1171 in 72K117——
CR Costa Rica461 in 111K46——

2,352 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)

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

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Italy, Canada

    Also written Capra, Čåprā

  • Indonesian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Peru, Indonesia

    Also written Capra

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.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)

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)

1 register or reference work attests this spelling, 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 Capră mean, and where does it come from?
Inherited from Latin capra, from caper, from Proto-Indo-European *kápros. Recorded by Wiktionary.
What are other forms of the name Capră?
In the etymology graph, Căprar is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Capră have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Capră, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled capra.
Where is Capră most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Capră is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 25 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Capră?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,352 people named Capră in 2010, about 1 in 141 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, “Capră”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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