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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : most likely a shortened form of Kappenmacher, an occupational name for a maker of hoods and hooded cloaks (see Kapp), or of Kappenberg, a habitational name from a place so named near Minden, Westphalia.

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