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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish (Capón) : from Spanish capón ‘capon’, applied as a derogatory nickname for a feeble man or a cuckold.
  • French : nickname (see 1 above) from capon ‘capon’, a southern, Norman, and Picard equivalent of standard French chapon.

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