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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (of Norman origin) : metonymic occupational name for a hood maker, from Old Norman French caprun, Old French chaperon ‘hood or cap (worn by the nobility)’.
  • French : from a Picard and southern form of chaperon (see 1, above).

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