Family name origins & meanings
- Southern Italian : from cappa ‘(hooded) cloak’, ‘cape’ (Late Latin cappa), applied as a metonymic occupational name for a maker of capes, or possibly as a nickname for a habitual wearer of a distinctive cape.
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