The CAPE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,441	11758	0.001	9
United States (1880 census)	511	9494	0.001	10
Change since 1880	+1930	-2264	0	-1
Other Countries
Australia	62	21456	0	4
United Kingdom	532	8460	0.001	12

Top States for CAPE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Georgia	388	2484	0.005	47
South Carolina	188	2984	0.005	47
California	139	17206	0.000	4
North Carolina	139	5679	0.002	17
Florida	129	13586	0.001	8
Top States for CAPE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Georgia	388	2484	0.005	47
South Carolina	188	2984	0.005	47
Montana	27	5212	0.003	30
South Dakota	22	6039	0.003	29
Kentucky	98	4495	0.002	24

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of CAPE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CAPE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the CAPE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of CAPE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	72	2.95
Black/African American	41	1.68
Mixed Race	35	1.43
Asian/Pacific	30	1.23
Native American/Alaskan	13	0.53
White (Caucasian)	2,250	92.18

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

Similar names to CAPE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CAPE.

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.