Capon Family History
Capon Name Meaning
English French (northern) and Walloon: from Middle English capo(u)n capen Picard capon and Middle Dutch capoen ‘capon’ applied as an unflattering nickname for a feeble man or a cuckold or as a metonymic occupational name for someone who reared or sold capons. This surname is also found in the Flemish part of Belgium. Spanish (Capón) and Jewish (Sephardic): from Spanish capón a cognate of 1 above.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022