Cábel

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country

Cábel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Suffolk; Aberdeens. see Cable .

  • PEPeru≈1 in 38K(inferred from the name graph)
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 43K
  • FRFrance≈1 in 150K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,700 people, est.

Record sources
61 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)

Peru, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Cabel in PE Peru, PH Philippines, US United States and 1 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

Main GB Location (1881): Suffolk; Aberdeens. see Cable .

Cited for this meaning 1

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Cábel is found

(measured from records)

Cábel counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Cábel is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines≈2,700 est.≈1 in 43K—Cabel26
PE Peru≈910 est.≈1 in 38K—Cabel37
FR France≈460 est.≈1 in 148K58—1
US United States2631 in 1.3M264Cabel61
PL Poland1341 in 286K68——
RO Romania≈82 est.≈1 in 231K—Cabel4
CZ Czechia381 in 282K38——

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); MVČR — living population register 2017. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Evidence

(measured from records)

1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Cábel mean, and where does it come from?
Main GB Location (1881): Suffolk; Aberdeens. see Cable . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Cábel?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.7 thousand people named Cábel in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cabel. After it come Peru, France, United States and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Cábel?
In the United States, the national register counted 263 people named Cábel in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Cábel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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