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    The surname Capel

    A surname, carried by 1,657 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex C140

    Capel: #17,120 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Capel #17,120, 1,657 people Capel: #17,120 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Capel #17,120, 1,657 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Capel is more common than 89.4% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,657 people named Capel in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 186,328 Americans. That is up 25% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,322.

    #17,120
    rank among US surnames
    1,657
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +25.3%
    change since 2000 (was #19,048)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #17,111Ulm1,658186,216
    #17,120Hamad1,657186,328
    #17,127Secord1,656186,441

    Who is named Capel

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

    63% of people named Capel identified as white (not Hispanic), 27% as Black (not Hispanic) and 4.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 63%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 27%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.5%
    • Two or more races 2.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 2.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Capel

    Capel has the Soundex code C140, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C140.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Capel?
    1,657 people in the United States had the surname Capel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 186,328 Americans. It ranked 17,120th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Capel?
    In the 2010 Census, 63% of people named Capel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 27% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Capel getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,322 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,657 in 2010, up 25%.