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The surname Capasso

An Italian surname, carried by 2,053 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex C120

Capasso: #14,523 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Capasso #14,523, 2,053 people Capasso: #14,523 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Capasso #14,523, 2,053 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Capasso is more common than 91% of them.

Origin

Italian origin

Borrowed from Italian Capasso.

One of 798 Italian surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,053 people named Capasso in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 150,388 Americans. That is down 6.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,183.

#14,523
rank among US surnames
2,053
people in 2010
0.7
per 100,000 Americans
-6%
change since 2000 (was #12,911)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#14,519Bogert2,054150,314
#14,523Capasso2,053150,388
#14,528Choquette2,052150,461
#14,532Anspach2,051150,534

Who is named Capasso

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

94% of people named Capasso identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 94%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.7%
  • Two or more races 1.1%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Capasso

Capasso has the Soundex code C120, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C120.

Other Italian surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Capasso come from?
Borrowed from Italian Capasso.
How common is the surname Capasso?
2,053 people in the United States had the surname Capasso in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 150,388 Americans. It ranked 14,523rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Capasso?
In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Capasso identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Capasso getting more or less common?
Less common. 2,183 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,053 in 2010, down 6.0%.