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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : occupational name for a chantry priest (or the servant of one), a priest endowed to sing mass daily on behalf of the souls of the dead (Late Latin capellanus). Compare Chaplin.
  • Americanized spelling of Swiss German Kaeppelin, a diminutive of Kappel.

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