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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

'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.

Meaning of CAPPS in historical publications

CAPP. CAPPS. Probably borrowed from that article of costume. See under Quaife, I\Iantell, Freemantle, &c. &c.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


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.

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

Potential typos for CAPPS

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