Kapaun
surname · Latin script
Meaning: German surname, possibly a nickname from mhd
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Kapaun is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 821K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 263Kas Kappaun
- ARArgentina1 in 3.8Mas Kappaun
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kapaun itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 5 (measured from records)
- 1 in 821K (inferred from the name graph)
804 named Kappaun
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)German surname, possibly a nickname from mhd. kappe ‘capon’ rather than clothing; occupational/trait-based. Bearer count in text: 19, 75.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kapaun 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 804as Kappaun | 1 in 263K | 804 | — | — |
| US United States | 405 | 1 in 821K | 413 | Kapaun | 5 |
| AR Argentina | 12as Kappaun | 1 in 3.8M | 12 | — | — |
| TH Thailand | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 24M | register #70,489 | Kapaun | 3 |
| EE Estonia | — | — | 9 | — | — |
804 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)Kapaun is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, 'capon'; from Greek, influenced by Hahn/Huhn
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, nickname from Kapaun ‘capon’, ‘castrated cock’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, capon (a cockerel which has been gelded and fattened for the table)
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)- Emil Kapaunb. 1916USKorean War US Army chaplain, POW, Medal of Honor recipient and Venerable (1916–1951)
- Heinz Kapaunb. 1929ATAustrian politician (1929-2008)
- Denise Jelilcha Kapaunb. 2007THThai actress and model
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 413 | #53,969 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 405 | #51,396 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 397 | #49,671 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 48 | #107,840 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 9 | #11,532 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 6 | #15,290 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Kapaun come from?
- German surname, possibly a nickname from mhd. kappe ‘capon’ rather than clothing; occupational/trait-based. Bearer count in text: 19, 75. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen.
- What are other forms of the name Kapaun?
- In the etymology graph, Capon and Chapon are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Kapaun mean?
- Recorded meaning: German surname, possibly a nickname from mhd.
- In which country does Kapaun have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 804 people named Kappaun, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kapaun most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kapaun is densest in the United States — about 1 in 821 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kapaun?
- In the United States, the national register counted 405 people named Kapaun in 2010, about 1 in 821 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kapaunThe 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, “Kapaun”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.