Given name & surname

Capone

Capone is a surname from Italian. It is used in English and Italian.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Capone comes from Italian.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Italian Capone.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1996. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Capone through the years

Babies since 1880
228
228 boys · 0 girls
Most popular year
2007
18 babies
2025
5
#12,359 for boys
2021–25 vs 2016–20
+100%
Rising fast
02.557.51020002025Highest share 20072.9
Capone in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1996–2025, per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 12,359 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 18 in 2007. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 183 as a first name in 2020; 4,645 as a surname in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

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