What would the ethnicity be of someone with the last name Kapadia?

Question:It's either Indian or Hindu. It's literal meaning is cloth merchant.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: It's either Indian or Hindu. It's literal meaning is cloth merchant.

You'd only have half of their ethnicity, on the father's side.
This is assuming that the name is the father's and not a step father.

indian

Indian. Atleast, his father's Indian.

indian

This is from ancestry.com

Indian (Gujarat, Bombay city, Rajasthan): Hindu (Bania, Vania) and Parsi name meaning ‘cloth merchant’ in Gujarati, from kap??d ‘cloth’ (Sanskrit karpa?ta) + the adjectival suffix -ya.