Släkthistoria för Cable
Cable Vad efternamn betyder
English: probably from the personal name Kabell' which may be a survival of Anglo-Saxon Ceadbeald a compound of an originally Brittonic element cad ‘battle’ + Old English beald ‘brave bold’. English: metonymic occupational name for a maker of rope especially the type of stout rope used in maritime applications from Middle English cable ‘cable’ (from Late Latin capulum ‘halter’ a word of Arabic origin but associated by folk etymology with Latin capere ‘to seize’). English: metonymic occupational name for a horseman from Middle English cabal ‘horse’. Americanized form of German Göbel (see Goebel) and Köbel (see Koebel) and probably also of some other similar (like-sounding) surname. Compare Kable.
Källa: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
