Frequency: (4089)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Portuguese and Galician: habitational name from any of the many places named with Late Latin capralis ‘place of goats’, from Latin capra ‘goat’.
GIVEN NAMES: Spanish 24%; Portuguese 11%. Manuel (104), Jose (88), Francisco (19), Fernando (18), Luis (18), Juan (16), Carlos (13), Armando (10), Ana (9), Mario (9), Miguel (7), Ricardo (7); Joao (8), Duarte (6), Joaquim (5), Paulo (4), Henrique (2), Vasco (2), Zulmira (2), Conceicao, Gonsalo, Heitor, Margarida, Messias.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
