Capel Surname
Approximately 11,820 people bear this surname
Capel Surname Definition:
This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'at the chapel'; Low Latin, capella, a sanctuary. Many chapels are so styled in England and Wales; compare Capel Cynon, Capel-Dewi, Capel-Colman, and Capel-Coelbren, all in the Diocese of St.
Read More About This SurnameCapel Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spain | 2,937 | 1:15,918 | 1,812 |
| France | 2,554 | 1:26,007 | 3,107 |
| United States | 1,825 | 1:198,608 | 19,557 |
| England | 1,232 | 1:45,226 | 5,696 |
| Brazil | 1,039 | 1:206,039 | 7,929 |
| Argentina | 504 | 1:84,808 | 7,176 |
| Netherlands | 447 | 1:37,779 | 6,374 |
| Australia | 377 | 1:71,607 | 8,462 |
| Canada | 131 | 1:281,264 | 26,302 |
| Wales | 126 | 1:24,560 | 2,581 |
| Uruguay | 77 | 1:44,568 | 5,026 |
| Dominican Republic | 69 | 1:151,202 | 5,897 |
| Belgium | 68 | 1:169,068 | 23,042 |
| South Africa | 41 | 1:1,321,407 | 72,211 |
| New Zealand | 41 | 1:110,447 | 14,290 |
| Malaysia | 41 | 1:719,371 | 33,828 |
| Germany | 28 | 1:2,875,195 | 137,699 |
| Switzerland | 25 | 1:328,517 | 25,592 |
| Chile | 22 | 1:800,749 | 17,445 |
| Singapore | 21 | 1:262,272 | 11,611 |
| Northern Ireland | 18 | 1:102,502 | 6,334 |
| Qatar | 16 | 1:147,375 | 16,023 |
| Poland | 14 | 1:2,714,911 | 112,031 |
| Thailand | 14 | 1:5,045,596 | 363,835 |
| Philippines | 11 | 1:9,203,475 | 207,772 |
| Italy | 11 | 1:5,559,699 | 110,230 |
| Scotland | 11 | 1:486,711 | 19,179 |
| Andorra | 10 | 1:8,384 | 1,259 |
| Swaziland | 9 | 1:144,244 | 719 |
| Haiti | 9 | 1:1,187,101 | 12,579 |
| Ghana | 9 | 1:3,002,299 | 11,581 |
| Paraguay | 7 | 1:1,033,821 | 9,769 |
| Mexico | 6 | 1:20,687,701 | 53,861 |
| Sweden | 5 | 1:1,969,351 | 134,077 |
| Venezuela | 5 | 1:6,040,815 | 47,898 |
| Croatia | 4 | 1:1,057,151 | 57,892 |
| French Polynesia | 4 | 1:70,201 | 4,444 |
| Tunisia | 4 | 1:152,656 | 17,743 |
| Denmark | 3 | 1:1,881,572 | 67,227 |
| Panama | 3 | 1:1,304,086 | 13,647 |
| Slovakia | 3 | 1:1,778,817 | 104,392 |
| Ecuador | 3 | 1:5,301,949 | 30,184 |
| Cuba | 2 | 1:5,761,358 | 13,825 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| Austria | 2 | 1:4,257,718 | 99,224 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| Romania | 2 | 1:10,038,935 | 80,612 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Fiji | 1 | 1:894,391 | 4,568 |
| Chad | 1 | 1:13,592,199 | 13,092 |
| Afghanistan | 1 | 1:32,153,183 | 60,828 |
| Angola | 1 | 1:26,989,214 | 11,853 |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 1:6,978,905 | 86,260 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Guatemala | 1 | 1:16,082,668 | 12,169 |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 1:7,335,483 | 16,643 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Palau | 1 | 1:21,643 | 223 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | 1:3,550,139 | 9,109 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 5 | 1:885,973 | 23,404 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 843 | 1:28,915 | 3,904 |
| Wales | 41 | 1:38,254 | 2,050 |
| Scotland | 3 | 1:1,247,739 | 24,719 |
| Jersey | 2 | 1:25,941 | 3,069 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 271 | 1:185,309 | 16,412 |
The alternate forms: Capél (1) are calculated separately.
Capel (64) may also be a first name.
Capel Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'at the chapel'; Low Latin, capella, a sanctuary. Many chapels are so styled in England and Wales; compare Capel Cynon, Capel-Dewi, Capel-Colman, and Capel-Coelbren, all in the Diocese of St. David's; Capel St. Andrew and Capel St. Mary in the Diocese of Norwich; compare Caplin for Chaplin.
Bateman de Capele, Suffolk, 1273. Hundred Rolls.
Andrew de Capella, Cambridgeshire, ibid.
Maynard de Capella, Buckinghamshire, ibid.
Elizabeth Capell, 1696: Reg. St. Columb Major.
Edward Chapell, 1697: ibid.
William Caple, 1770: ibid.
1701. Baptised — William Capell: St. Michael, Cornhill.
1705. Married — Owen Myers and Mary Capel, St. George, Hanover Square.
(French-Latin) the guttural form of Chapel, q.v. (Anglo-Scand.-Latin), a nickname from the Horse [Middle English capel, caple, capul, Old Norse kapall; Latin caball-us, a horse, nag] Grace devysede A cart highte cristendom To carie Piers sheves; And gaf hym caples to his carte.—Piers Plowman, 13619-22.
He hath also to do moore than ynough To kepe hym and his capul out of slough.— Chaucer, Cant. Tales, H 63-4.
For scho [she] ys wele schapen, and liht as the rae [roe], Ther is no capul in thys myle befor hur schal ga.—‘The Turnament of Tottenham’: Percy’s Reliques.
The Earl of Essex descends from a lord-mayor of London, 1503. The surname is probably derived from one of the parishes so called in Surrey, Kent, and Suffolk. The Capels of Gloucestershire claim from How Capel, co. Hereford. In charters it is latinized De Capella.
An old word signifying a strong horse.
"And gave him caples to his carte."
Chaucer.
Capel, Danish, an oratory, a chapel.
A Breton family, from la Chapelle, Nantes (Morice, Hist. Bret. Pr. i. xiii.). Roald de Capella was living 1030, and in 1060, with Rainald, his son, made grants to St. Florent, Saumur. In 1096 his eldest son occurs in Bretagne, where the family long flourished. Rainald, the son, held lands in Essex from Alberic de Ver, 1086 (Domesd.). He was succeeded by Alberic de C., whose son, Walter de C., was living 1199, when the pedigree was stated in a suit iu the Curia Regis. The last-mentioned witnessed charters of Matilda, Countess of Essex, and Geoffry de Say (Mon. i. 461,462). Robert C., 13th cent., held lands from Valoines in Essex (Testa de Neville); and William de C. was on an Inquisition in Suffolk (Mon. i. 289). From the latter descended the Lords Capel, Earls of Essex.
From La Chapelle, near Alençon. Gaufridus, Robert, and William de Capella, of Normandy, 1180-95 (Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae). This family became seated in the West of England.
(English), Chapel or Cloak. Capel is also old English for a horse. In the Roman de Rou, mention is made of an Iwan al Chapel, elsewhere called Eudo cum Cappello, Eudo with the Cloak or Cowl.
A location name in Suffolk, North Wales, South Wales.
Capel Demographics
Average Male Capel Height
175.56 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Capel Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Capel Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Capel is found most in Spain. It can also be rendered in the variant forms: Capél. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Capel? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 43,961st most frequent surname in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 616,544 people. The last name Capel is primarily found in Europe, where 63 percent of Capel are found; 26 percent are found in Western Europe and 25 percent are found in Iberian Europe. Capel is also the 1,223,525th most widespread forename on earth, borne by 64 people.
This surname is most widely held in Spain, where it is carried by 2,937 people, or 1 in 15,918. In Spain it is mostly found in: Andalusia, where 45 percent live, Catalonia, where 25 percent live and Murcia, where 13 percent live. Barring Spain this last name occurs in 71 countries. It is also found in France, where 22 percent live and The United States, where 15 percent live.
Capel Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Capel has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Capel last name expanded 673 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it expanded 146 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Wales it expanded 307 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Scotland it expanded 367 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Ireland it contracted 80 percent between 1901 and 2014.
Capel Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those carrying the last name is primarily Anglican (60%) in Ireland.
In The United States those holding the Capel surname are 16.67% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 63.44% being registered to vote for the party.
The amount Capel earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 83.82% more than the national average, earning R 436,824 per year; in United States they earn 1.65% more than the national average, earning $43,859 USD per year and in Canada they earn 13.37% more than the national average, earning $56,324 CAD per year.
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