Cable Family History

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.