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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch (also Cappers) : occupational name for a hood maker ornickname for someone who habitually wore a hood, from an agentderivative of Middle Dutch cappe ‘hood’.
  • Dutch and North German : patronymic form of a variant of the personal names Gebhardt or Kasper (see also Kaspar).

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