Family name origins & meanings
- Polish : from kapral ‘corporal’ (ultimately from Latin caput ‘head’), hence a status name for a corporal in the army.
- Reduced form of Greek Kapralos, which may also be a military status name meaning ‘corporal’, derived from Italian caporale, but is more probably related to Albanian kapruall, kaproll ‘roebuck’ or Aromanian capr{au} ‘goat’.