Kapel Family History
Kapel Name Meaning
Polish: variant of Kapela . Slovenian: nickname from an old spelling of the fish name kapelj ‘bullhead’ perhaps denoting a person with a big head or a gaper. In North America this surname may also be an altered form of the variant Kapelj. Dutch: metonymic occupational name for a chaplain or a caretaker of a chapel from kapel ‘chapel’ or a topographic name for someone living near a chapel respectively a habitational name from any of several places called Kapel(le) or Capel(le).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022