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cable Name Meaning and History

  1. 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’).
  2. English: possibly from an Old English personal name, Ceadbeald.
  3. English: metonymic occupational name for a horseman, from Middle English cabal ‘horse’.
  4. From German Göbel (see Goebel), assimilated to the English name.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of cable Families in the US in 1920
Number of cable families
 80-158
 27-79		 1-26
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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