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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian (Campania) : from Latin caprae ‘goats’ or possibly from Greek kapros ‘(wild) boar’, and so a metonymic occupational name for a goatherd or swineherd, or a nickname for someone thought to resemble a goat or boar.

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