Cap Family History
Cap Name Meaning
Ukrainian, Jewish (from Ukraine), Polish, Serbian, and
Hungarian (Cáp): from Ukrainian tsap ‘billy goat’,
Polish cap, and so probably a nickname for someone thought to
resemble the animal in some way or perhaps a metonymic occupational
name for a goat herd.Czech (Cáp):
nickname for a tall or long-legged man, from cáp
‘stork’.Southern French: from Occitan cap ‘head’ (Latin
caput); probably a nickname for a person with something
distinctive about his head. The word was often used in the
metaphorical sense ‘chief’, ‘principal’, and the surname may also have
denoted a leader or a village elder. In some cases it may also be a
topographic name from the same word used in the sense of a promontory
or headland.Americanized spelling of German Kapp.English: variant spelling of Capp.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Cap Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cap families
 12 - 21  5 - 11 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Cap families
|
7 - 11 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Cap last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cap census records
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Cap Family Origin
Cap Immigration Information
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Cap Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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