Spanish: from cabello ‘hair’ (Latin capillus, a
collective noun), applied as a nickname for a man with a particularly
luxuriant growth of hair, or perhaps ironically for a bald man.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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