Capo

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.

• English:/ˈkeɪpoʊ/●(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
• Spanish:/ˈka.po/●(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Capo is one spelling over 4 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.

• English39%

  A movable bar placed across the fingerboard of a guitar used to raise the pitch of all strings.

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

• Spanish29%

  gangster

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

• French9.7%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Capo in French.

• Arabic6.8%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Capo in Arabic.

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Capo is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate name4 spellings in the group

  Also written Capò, Capó, Čapo

• Indonesian surname4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Spain, Tunisia, Malaysia

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Capó, Čāpő

• Russian surname12 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, United States, Spain, Ukraine

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

  Also written Капо, Kapo, Càpo, Capó, Čäpő

• Hungarian surname5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Hungary, United States, Spain

  Also written Capó, Cápo, Čapo, Čápő

45 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.

Capo 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 Italian, do lat. caput, com vários sentidos: cabeça, ponta, chefe etc.

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

• In Catalan, first-person singular present indicative of capar

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

• In Latin, a capon (castrated cockerel)

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

• In ist, head

  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.

• Fran Capob. 1959Guinness World Record holder including for fastest talker, comedian, motivational speaker, author
• Vincent Capo-Canellasb. 1967FRFrench politician
• Kémi Sébab. 1981FRnot in their usual nameBeninese political activist, diplomat

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).

23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.

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

What does the name Capo mean, and where does it come from?

A movable bar placed across the fingerboard of a guitar used to raise the pitch of all strings. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

How do you pronounce Capo?

It depends on the language: in English /ˈkeɪpoʊ/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /ˈka.po/ (Wiktionary).

Which countries have the most people with the surname Capo?

Mondonomo estimates about 2.8 thousand people named Capo in Tunisia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled capo. After it come Italy, Egypt, Spain and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.

Where is Capo most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Capo is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 4.3 thousand people — even though Tunisia holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Capo?

In Spain, the national register counted 2,313 people named Capo, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.

How common is Capo compared with other names?

In Tunisia, Capo is the 227th most common surname of 37,763 surnames recorded there.