The CAPPS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	18,013	1830	0.007	67
United States (1880 census)	2,454	2487	0.005	49
Change since 1880	+15559	+657	+0.002	+18
Other Countries
Australia	115	12569	0.001	7
United Kingdom	573	8064	0.001	12

Top States for CAPPS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	2,652	439	0.033	329
Texas	1,733	1479	0.008	83
Tennessee	1,345	686	0.024	236
Florida	1,042	2033	0.007	65
Alabama	998	777	0.022	224
Top States for CAPPS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	2,652	439	0.033	329
Tennessee	1,345	686	0.024	236
South Carolina	930	718	0.023	232
Alabama	998	777	0.022	224
Oklahoma	586	814	0.017	170

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

Classification and Origin of CAPPS

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 CAPPS 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 CAPPS 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 CAPPS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	276	1.53
Black/African American	234	1.3
White (Hispanic)	229	1.27
Native American/Alaskan	153	0.85
Asian/Pacific	59	0.33
White (Caucasian)	17,062	94.72

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

Similar names to CAPPS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CAPPS.

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.