Popular Names
CAPTAIN Name
| Name: | Captain |
| Gender: | Male |
| Origin/Usage: | English |
| Meaning: | He who is in charge |
Captain J. G. Stedman: "Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to their excesses of all sorts) that I have frequently known wives who have buried four husbands, but never met a man in this country who had survived two wives."