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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Greek : reduced form of a surname beginning with the prefix Kapa-, Kamba-, or Kapo-, from Turkish kaba ‘large’, ‘coarse’, for example Kapogiannis ‘John the coarse’. It is unlikely to be from Latin cappa ‘cape’.

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