Cappa
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: The thick wall on the proximal side of the corpus of a pollen grain
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kæpə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cappa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 30K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 54K
- UYUruguay1 in 154K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Cappa itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 82 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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)
The thick wall on the proximal side of the corpus of a pollen grain.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
How Cappa is read(measured from records)
Cappa is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.
- English42%
The thick wall on the proximal side of the corpus of a pollen grain.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish35%
kappa; the Greek letter Κ, κ
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Italian7.0%
sleeveless coat; cloak
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
do lat. cappa; indica portador/fabricante/mercador de capas.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
do lat. cupa/cuppa; pode aludir a recipiente, nuca ou paio
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- French6.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Cappa in French.
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)
Cappa 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 30K | listed | Cappa | 82 |
| AR Argentina | 843 | 1 in 54K | 843 | Cappa | 47 |
| US United States | 775 | 1 in 429K | 838 | Cappa | 65 |
| IN India | 643as Kappa | 1 in 2.1M | 643 | Cappa | 2 |
| BR Brazil | 231 | 1 in 917K | 231 | Cappa | 38 |
| PE Peru | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 204K | — | Cappa | 26 |
| CH Switzerland | 51 | 1 in 165K | 51 | Cappa | 6 |
| UY Uruguay | 22 | 1 in 154K | 22 | Cappa | 5 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the xinhua-italian-manual register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Cappa is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In ang, a long tunic with a hood; huke
as a wordkaikki.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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Innocenzo Cappab. 1875ITItalian lawyer and politician (1875-1954)
- Paolo Cappab. 1888ITItalian journalist and politician (1888–1956)
- Ernesto Cappab. 1888ITItalian military officer (1888–1957)
- Benedetta Cappab. 1897ITItalian writer and painter (1897-1977)
- Felice Cappab. 1963ITItalian journalist
- Francesco Cappab. 1965ITItalian priest and theologian (born 1965)
- Gaetano Cappab. 1969ITItalian radio host and record producer
- Francesco Cappab. 1973ITItalian pedagogue (born 1973)
- Adam Cappab. 1985USmusician
- Andrea Cappab. 1993ITItalian footballer
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 843 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 838 | #29,943 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 805 | #28,028 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 775 | #30,222 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 231 | #32,624 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 51 | #18,386 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 22 | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Cappa mean, and where does it come from?
- The thick wall on the proximal side of the corpus of a pollen grain. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Cappa?
- A machine transcription gives /kæpə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Cappa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Cappa in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cappa.
- How common is the name Cappa?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 843 people named Cappa, about 1 in 54 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cappaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Cappa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.