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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : from kapral ‘corporal’ (ultimately from Latin caput ‘head’), hence a status name for a corporal in the army.
  • Reduced form of Greek Kapralos, which may also be a military status name meaning ‘corporal’, derived from Italian caporale, but is more probably related to Albanian kapruall, kaproll ‘roebuck’ or Aromanian capr{au} ‘goat’.

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