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cabrera Name Meaning and History

Catalan and Spanish: habitational name from any of various minor places called Cabrera, from Late Latin capraria ‘place of goats’ (a derivative of Latin capra ‘goat’).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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