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capone Name Meaning and History

  1. from an augmentative of capo ‘head’, applied as a nickname for someone with a big head, probably in the sense ‘arrogant’ or ‘stubborn’ rather than in a strictly literal sense.
  2. from capone ‘capon’, ‘castrated cock’, applied as a derogatory nickname for a cuckold, or a metonymic occupational name for someone who kept poultry.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of capone Families in the US in 1920
Number of capone families
 29-55
 10-28
 1-9
 0
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