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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish, Catalan, and Italian : from capella ‘chapel’, a topographic name for someone who lived by a chapel or a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked in one.
  • Italian : habitational name from any of several places called Cappella or Capella.

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