as a Last Name
- 2,306
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Kappel
Meaning & Origins
German and Dutch: topographic name for a person living near a chapel, from Middle High German kap(p)elle, kappel ‘chapel’. This is a loanword from Late Latin cap(p)ella, a diminutive of cappa ‘hooded cloak’, the first building to be so called having housed a cloak that reputedly belonged to St. Martin of Tours.
| 13,224th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 2,306
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- North Dakota
- has the most people named Kappel per capita
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