Capone

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in English: (i) from a medieval Italian nickname for a conceited person; (ii) ‘keeper of poultry’, or nickname for a cuckold

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/kəˈpoʊn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Capone is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ITItaly≈1 in 8.4K(inferred from the name graph)
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 58K
  • USUnited States1 in 65K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Italy (inferred from the name graph)

≈7,400 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
341 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 8.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Italy, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

CaponeLatin(measured from records)
ΚαπόνεGreek(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)

(i) from a medieval Italian nickname for a conceited person; (ii) ‘keeper of poultry’, or nickname for a cuckold

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

How Capone is read(measured from records)

Capone is one spelling over 3 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.

  • English71%

    (i) from a medieval Italian nickname for a conceited person; (ii) ‘keeper of poultry’, or nickname for a cuckold

    as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

    Al 'Scarface', US gangster

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • Italian7.8%

    augmentative of capo

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    de Capo com a desinência singular -one.

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • Spanish7.1%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Capone in Spanish.

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.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Capone 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.

Where Capone is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy≈7,400 est.≈1 in 8.4KlistedCapone75
US United States5,1351 in 65K5.1KCapone341
GB United Kingdom≈1,100 est.≈1 in 58K—Capone93
ID Indonesia≈890 est.≈1 in 299K—Capone10
FR France≈620 est.≈1 in 109K73—3
CH Switzerland2071 in 41K207Capone18
IE Ireland≈92 est.≈1 in 56K—Capone4
JM Jamaica≈79 est.≈1 in 36K—Capone1

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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the xinhua-italian-manual register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Capone is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Italian surname19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Argentina, Brazil

    Languages: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Čàpõńë, Capoñe, Capöñë, Caponè, Ĉăpõňê

  • French surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Italy

    Also written Caponé, Cãpone, Càpone, Cãpõnë, Caponè

  • Polish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Italy

    Also written Càponè

  • Bulgarian surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, United States, Croatia, Italy

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Slovenian

    Also written Kapone, Капоне

  • Russian surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, United States, Italy

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Капоне, Капон, Kapone

30 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Vincenzo Capone, b. 1892Ralph Capone, b. 1894Frank Capone, b. 1895Louis Capone, b. 1896Mae Coughlin, b. 1897Al Capone, b. 1899Albert Francis "Sonny" Capone, b. 1918Alessandro Capone, b. 1955Dominic Capone, b. 1975Tomer Capone, b. 1985

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)

FormalDear Capone,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 29 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Capone
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020105.1K#6,595
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020005.1K#6,167
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020204.6K#6,970
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024207#6,085
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196192—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199173—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198171—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197169—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195162—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194112—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19218—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19118—

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

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

What does the name Capone mean, and where does it come from?
(i) from a medieval Italian nickname for a conceited person; (ii) ‘keeper of poultry’, or nickname for a cuckold Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
How do you pronounce Capone?
A machine transcription gives /kəˈpoʊn/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Capone have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 7.4 thousand people named Capone in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled capone.
How common is the name Capone?
In the United States, the national register counted 5,135 people named Capone in 2010, about 1 in 65 thousand residents.

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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, “Capone”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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