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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • German : Loves astrology; starry-eyed

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : occupational name for a clergyman bound to a chapel and living in its vicinity (i.e. a chaplain or a chaplain’s assistant), from Latin capellarius.
  • German : habitational name for someone from a place named Kappel or topographic name for someone who lived by a chapel, Middle High German kappel(le) (see Kappel).

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