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Meaning & Origins
Transferred use of the surname, which originated in the Middle Ages as an ethnic name for one of the Bretons who arrived in England in the wake of the Norman Conquest. As a surname it is most common in East Anglia, where Breton settlement was particularly concentrated. As a given name, it enjoyed something of a vogue in the 1970s and has since remained modestly popular, especially in the United States.
| 388th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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’).
| 581st in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Bret, Bretta, Brette, Breta, Bretha, Brete, Bretty, Breth, Britt, Bretia
Cabral, Cabrales, Cabreja, Cabrerra, Cabrer, Cabreros, Cabriales, Cabrara, Capraro, Cabrero
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