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The CABLE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 9,551 3430 0.004 35
United States (1880 census) 2,414 2525 0.005 48
Change since 1880 +7137 -905 -0.001 -13
Other Countries
Australia 361 4391 0.002 22
United Kingdom 2,349 2570 0.005 51
Top States for CABLE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 985 1318 0.012 122
California 688 4445 0.002 20
Pennsylvania 663 2399 0.005 54
Ohio 639 2287 0.006 56
Tennessee 593 1520 0.010 104
Top States for CABLE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 985 1318 0.012 122
Tennessee 593 1520 0.010 104
Oklahoma 252 1975 0.007 73
Kentucky 284 2049 0.007 70
Ohio 639 2287 0.006 56

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called CABLE live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CABLE represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CABLE in North Carolina than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CABLE by picking someone at random in North Carolina than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CABLE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CABLE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the CABLE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of CABLE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 296 3.1
White (Hispanic) 148 1.55
Native American/Alaskan 127 1.33
Mixed Race 87 0.91
Asian/Pacific 63 0.66
White (Caucasian) 8,830 92.45

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the CABLE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of CABLE in historical publications

CABLE. Probably the same as Caple or Capel.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to CABLE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CABLE.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for CABLE

The following words are slight variants of CABLE that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.