Updated June 9, 2019

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Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old French : Rope

Boy name variations

Cabel

Cabel

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Cab

Cab

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Cabe

Cabe

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Cabell

Cabell

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Family name origins & meanings

  • English : metonymic occupational name for a maker of rope, especially the type of stout rope used in maritime applications, from Anglo-Norman French cable ‘cable’ (Late Latin capulum ‘halter’, of Arabic origin, but associated by folk etymology with Latin capere ‘to seize’).
  • English : possibly from an Old English personal name, Ceadbeald.
  • English : metonymic occupational name for a horseman, from Middle English cabal ‘horse’.
  • From German Göbel (see Goebel), assimilated to the English name.