First name origin & meaning: Old French: Rope First name variations: Cabel, Cab, Cabe, Cable Last name origins & meanings:
- Catalan: nickname for a bald man, equivalent to Spanish
Cabello.
- English: variant spelling of
Cable.
- Possibly a respelling of German Göbel (see
Goebel) or Kabel.
- William Cabell, of Bugley near Warminster, in Wiltshire, England,
trained in surgery and migrated to Virginia in the 18th century. The
emigrant ancestor of a distinguished VA family, he married in 1726 and
by 1741 had carried settlements 50 miles westward. As a pioneer
during VA’s westward push, the surgeon had a private hospital from
which he handed out medicines and wooden legs crafted by his
artisans.
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