as a Last Name
- 10,038
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Cable
Meaning & Origins
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’).
| 3,566th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 10,038
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- North Carolina
- has the most people named Cable per capita
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