Capa

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.

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Capa 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.

• Spanish50%

  cloak, cape (a sleeveless garment hanging from the neck)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• English26%

  A Spanish cloak.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Capa is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English surname11 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Germany, India

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Çapa, Ćapa, Çápā, Cápa

• French surname4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Philippines, Belgium, United States

  Also written Çapa, Càpà

• a separate name3 spellings in the group

  Also written Capā, Çapa

• Swahili surname5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Philippines, India, South Africa, Peru

  Also written Çapa

• Italian surname2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Philippines, Italy, Peru, Spain

  Also written Çapa

• Romanian surname2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Philippines, Spain, Ecuador, Belgium

  Also written Çapa

• Croatian surname19 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Croatia, Russia

  Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

  Also written Chapa, Chappa, Чапа, Čapa, Çapa

• Hungarian surname3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, Peru, Hungary, India

  Also written Cápa, Çapa

29 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Capa is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Portuguese, cover, cape, cloak

  as a word·A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese

• In Portuguese, cloak; cape (long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In map-pro, to smoke fish or meat for preservation

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In nap, head (the part of the body containing the brain)

  as a word·kaikki.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.

• Robert Capab. 1913HUAmerican photographer (1913–1954)
• Cornell Capab. 1918USAmerican photographer (1918–2008)
• Joaquín Capab. 1941ESSpanish painter
• Ndumiso Capab. 1949ZASouth African politician
• Elixabete Capab. 1978ESSpanish footballer
• Ander Capab. 1992ESSpanish footballer
• María CapaNONorwegian marine invertebrate zoologist

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).

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Where does the name Capa come from?

cover, cape, cloak Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.

How do you pronounce Capa?

In Spanish /ˈka.pa/ (Wiktionary).

What does the name Capa mean?

In Spanish, cloak, cape (a sleeveless garment hanging from the neck)

In which country does Capa have the most bearers?

Mondonomo estimates about 4.7 thousand people named Capa in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled capa.

How common is the name Capa?

In Spain, the national register counted 884 people named Capa, about 1 in 57 thousand residents.