Cabello
surname · Latin script
Meaning: hair (the mass of hairs on the head)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kaβeʎo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cabello is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- CLChile≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 1.9K
- ESSpain1 in 2.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 254 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
21,268 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
hair (the mass of hairs on the head)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cabello 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.
21,268 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Cabello is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In osp, hair
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mercedes Cabellob. 1845PEPeruvian writer (1845–1909)
- Remigio Cabellob. 1869ESSpanish typesetter and politician
- Marta Beatriz Roqueb. 1945CUnot in their usual nameCuban dissident
- Diosdado Cabellob. 1963VEVenezuelan politician, military officer
- Francisco Cabellob. 1969ESSpanish road bicycle racer
- Roberto Acuñab. 1972ARnot in their usual nameParaguayan footballer
- Victoria Cabellob. 1975GBMTV Italia veejay
- Alba María Cabello Rodillab. 1986ESSpanish synchronized swimmer
- Alfonso Cabellob. 1993ESParalympic athlete
- Camila Cabellob. 1997CUCuban-Mexican-American singer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 21K | #251 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 21K | #251 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 7K | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cabello mean, and where does it come from?
- hair (the mass of hairs on the head) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Cabello?
- A machine transcription gives /kaβeʎo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Cabello have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 21 thousand people named Cabello, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cabello.
- How common is the name Cabello?
- In Spain, the national register counted 21,268 people named Cabello, about 1 in 2.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Cabello compared with other names?
- In Spain, Cabello is the 201st most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cabelloThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Cabello” — the 201st most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.