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The CAP surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 856 26738 0 3
United States (1880 census) 154 23291 0 3
Change since 1880 +702 -3447 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 20 52511 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for CAP by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Illinois 114 10365 0.001 9
California 67 29349 0.000 2
New Jersey 58 15055 0.001 7
Connecticut 55 7438 0.002 16
Ohio 54 20570 0.000 5
Top States for CAP by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 47 2231 0.006 62
Connecticut 55 7438 0.002 16
Nebraska 23 10463 0.001 13
Nevada 22 9205 0.001 11
Illinois 114 10365 0.001 9

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called CAP live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CAP represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CAP in Illinois than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CAP by picking someone at random in South Dakota than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CAP

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the CAP surname.

Ethnic distribution of CAP in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 745 87.03
White (Hispanic) 62 7.24
Asian/Pacific 25 2.92
Native American/Alaskan 12 1.4
Black/African American 7 0.82
Mixed Race 5 0.58

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the CAP surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

CAP is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of CAP in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of CAP.

Similar names to CAP

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CAP.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for CAP

The following words are slight variants of CAP that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.