Entry № 1746 · Latin origin

Capella Capella — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ kah-PEL-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"The little she-goat; a bright star"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "the little she-goat; a bright star".

Capella is the brilliant golden star of the constellation Auriga, its Latin name meaning the little she-goat.

One of the brightest stars in the northern sky, it makes a luminous, gently pastoral name.

The little she-goat; a bright star — a Latin name.

The name in its native script.

Capella
Transliteration
Capella
Pronunciation
/ kaˈpɛ.la /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Capella stands.

Capella does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Capellas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Capella.

The number behind Capella.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Capella reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.