Family name origins & meanings
- Italian (also Capitò) : from a reduced form of the medieval Greek personal name Agapitos meaning ‘dear’, ‘beloved’.
- German : Latinized form of Haupt or Kopf ‘head’.
- Wolfgang Capito (born 1478 or 1472) from Alsace, a Protestant reformer in Strasbourg, was originally Wolfgang Köpfel (literally, ‘little head’), son of Johann Köpfel.