The authors agree that this surname comes from the old name Capodanno, attributed to children born on New Year's Day, and that its presence is concentrated in the Naples area.

E. De Felice describes it as a surname common in Naples, without going into its regional distribution. Rossoni, for his part, places it in the whole of the region of Campania, specifying that the name from which it derives sometimes had an attributive character linked to the date of birth.