Cabot Family History
Cabot Name Meaning
French Channel Islands (Jersey) and English (of Norman origin): nickname from Old French and Anglo-Norman French cabot a diminutive of cap ‘head’ a word that was also used to denote a species of small fish. Alternatively a habitational name from one of the many places so called in the northern part of France.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022