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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant spelling of Capel.
  • Catalan : from capell ‘hat’, ‘hood’, as a nickname for someone who habitually wore a hat or hood, or a metonymic occupational name for someone who made hats or hoods.

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