This list is a collaboration of input from those contributing in response to a Facebook post in June 2019. If you have additional names to add, please let us know. There are currently 467 surnames in our collection. When you think of early Cape County, what surname comes to mind?
| Abernathy |
| Adams |
| Albert |
| Alexander |
| Allen |
| Altenthal |
| Amelunke |
| Anderson |
| Andrews |
| Astholz |
| Austin |
| Baker |
| Ballou |
| Barks |
| Bartles |
| Bast |
| Baümer/Baumer |
| Bean |
| Bender |
| Bennett |
| Bergmann |
| Bertrand |
| Best |
| Betten |
| Biri |
| Blattner |
| Blaylock/Blalock |
| Bock |
| Bodenschatz |
| Bohnsack |
| Bolin |
| Bollinger |
| Bowers |
| Bowman |
| Brennecke |
| Brooks |
| Brown |
| Bruihl-Brill |
| Brunke |
| Bryan |
| Buehrmann |
| Bull |
| Burford |
| Burrough |
| Burton |
| Byrd |
| Byrne |
| Caldwell |
| Campbell |
| Canterbury |
| Cargle |
| Carroll |
| Chenoweth |
| Clingingsmith |
| Clippard |
| Clodfelter |
| Clubb |
| Cobb |
| Cobble |
| Coerver |
| Collins |
| Colyer |
| Conley |
| Conrad |
| Cotner |
| Cousin |
| Cox |
| Cracraft |
| Crader |
| Craft |
| Crafton |
| Cramer |
| Criddle |
| Crites/Crytes |
| Crump |
| Cullison |
| Dalton |
| Daniel |
| Daues |
| Daugherty/Dougherty |
| Davault |
| Davenport/Devenport |
| Davidson |
| Davis |
| Deck |
| Deevers |
| DeLap |
| Dempsey |
| Denton |
| Devenport |
| Devore |
| Dewrock |
| Diebold |
| Doggett |
| Dolle |
| Drum |
| Dubs |
| Duringer/Dueringer |
| Eaker |
| Eakins |
| East |
| Eggimann |
| Emde |
| Engelman |
| Englehart |
| English |
| Ervin |
| Essner |
| Estes |
| Farrar |
| Fenimore |
| Fitzimmons |
| Flowers |
| Foeste |
| Ford |
| Fornkahl/Vornkahl |
| Frank |
| Frederick |
| Freeman |
| Freese |
| Fulbright |
| Fulenwider |
| Geiser |
| Gibler |
| Giboney |
| Gill |
| Girardot |
| Glenn |
| Gohn |
| Goodson |
| Graves |
| Grebe |
| Green |
| Gregory |
| Greten |
| Großheider/Grossheider |
| Grotrian |
| Haas |
| Hager |
| Häger/Hager |
| Hahs |
| Hahs |
| Hampton |
| Harenberg |
| Harmon |
| Harris |
| Harrison |
| Hartle |
| Hartle |
| Harvey |
| Hatcher |
| Haupt |
| Hawkins |
| Hedricks |
| Heise |
| Held |
| Helderman |
| Helmig |
| Hempstead |
| Henderson |
| Hengst |
| Henley |
| Hensley |
| Heuer |
| Heuschober |
| Hines |
| Hinke/Hink |
| Hinkle |
| Hinni |
| Hinton |
| Hirsch |
| Hitt |
| Hobbs |
| Hodge |
| Hoffman |
| Hope |
| Hopfer |
| Hopkins |
| Hopper |
| Horn |
| Horn |
| Horrell |
| Houck |
| Howard |
| Huckstep |
| Huffman |
| Hughey |
| Ische |
| Jeffers |
| Jenkins |
| Joerns |
| Johnson |
| Jones |
| Jones |
| Joyce |
| Juden |
| Kage |
| Kassel |
| Keeling |
| Keller |
| Keller |
| Kemp |
| Kerstner |
| Kester |
| Kies |
| Kinder |
| King |
| Kipping |
| Klasing |
| Klaus |
| Klostermann |
| Knaus |
| Kneibert |
| Knott |
| Knox |
| Koehler |
| Koester |
| Kraft |
| Kramer/Kraemer |
| Krause |
| Kurre |
| Kutscher |
| Lang |
| Lange |
| Laudon |
| Lehner |
| Leine |
| LeMay |
| Leming |
| Lewis |
| Lilly |
| Limbaugh |
| Lincecum |
| Link |
| Litzelfelner |
| Lohkamp |
| Loos |
| Lorimier |
| Lowes/Lobes |
| Ludwig |
| Luetje |
| Mabrey |
| Maevers |
| Martens |
| Martin |
| Mason |
| Massey |
| Masters |
| Masterson |
| Matteson |
| Matthews |
| Mayfield |
| Mayr/Meyr/Maier |
| McAnally |
| McAtee |
| McBryde |
| McClain |
| McClard/McClard/McLaird |
| McFerron |
| McGhee |
| McGuire |
| McKenna |
| McLain/McLane |
| McLard |
| McLeary |
| McNeely |
| Medley |
| Meier/Meyer |
| Meister |
| Meyer |
| Meystedt |
| Miller |
| Mills |
| Minton |
| Moore |
| Morton |
| Mueller |
| Naeter |
| Nagel/Nagle |
| Neely |
| Nelson |
| Newcum |
| Newman |
| Nichols |
| Niswonger |
| Noland |
| Norton |
| Nunn |
| Oberheide |
| Ochs |
| O'Guin |
| Oldham |
| Oliver |
| Paar |
| Pace |
| Painter |
| Pape |
| Parks |
| Patterson |
| Peetz |
| Peironnet |
| Penny |
| Penrod |
| Pensel |
| Penturf |
| Peterman |
| Pettigrew |
| Philipps/Phillips |
| Pierronnet |
| Pilz |
| Pitts |
| Poe |
| Pohlman(n) |
| Pott |
| Powell |
| Probst |
| Proctor |
| Proffer |
| Pruente |
| Quaas |
| Quade |
| Rafferey |
| Randol |
| Randol/Randall |
| Ranney |
| Reck |
| Renfroe |
| Reutzel |
| Revelle |
| Rhodes |
| Rhyne |
| Richards |
| Rickard |
| Rider |
| Riemann |
| Ristig |
| Robb R |
| Roberts |
| Robison/Robinson |
| Rodney |
| Roehl |
| Rogers |
| Rose |
| Rubel |
| Rudisaele |
| Ruebel/Rubel/Ruble |
| Rueseler |
| Ruff |
| Runnels |
| Ruppel |
| Russell |
| Russkamp |
| Rutledge |
| Sachse |
| Sadler |
| Sams |
| Samuel(s) |
| Sander |
| Sanford |
| Sawyer |
| Schaefer |
| Schafer |
| Scharenborg |
| Schattauer |
| Schenimann |
| Schlegel |
| Schlue |
| Schlueter |
| Schmidt |
| Schmuke |
| Schneider |
| Schnoff |
| Schoen |
| Schoenborn |
| Scholz |
| Schrader |
| Schulz S |
| Schwab |
| Schweiger |
| Seabaugh |
| Sebastian |
| Seibert |
| Sewing |
| Seyer |
| Shepard/Sheppard |
| Sheppard |
| Shivelbein |
| Sides |
| Siemers |
| Simpson |
| Slinkard |
| Sloan |
| Smith |
| Snider |
| Spears |
| Spinks/Spink |
| Spradling |
| St. Avit |
| Stathem |
| Statler |
| Stearns |
| Stevenson |
| Stewart |
| Stiemel |
| Stiff |
| Stout |
| Stratman |
| Stroder |
| Strong |
| Sturdivant |
| Tacke |
| Talley |
| Tant |
| Taylor |
| Terry |
| Thacker |
| Thompson |
| Tiedemann |
| Tooke |
| Torrence |
| Travis |
| Trickey |
| Trotter |
| Tuschhoff |
| Ueleke |
| Ulrich |
| Umbeck |
| Upchurch |
| VanAmburgh |
| Vandivort |
| Vangilder/VanGelder |
| Varner |
| Vasterling |
| Vogel |
| Voges |
| Walker |
| Wallace |
| Waller |
| Watkins |
| Watts |
| Wehrli |
| Weiss |
| Welch |
| Welker |
| Welty |
| Werner |
| Weßel/Wessel |
| Wheeler |
| Whitledge |
| Whitmore |
| Whitney |
| Whittake |
| Wicker |
| Wilhelm |
| Williams |
| Williford |
| Wills |
| Wilson |
| Windeknecht |
| Winder |
| Winkler |
| Withers |
| Wolfe/Woolf |
| Woods |
| Woody |
| Yancey |
| Young |