Cabell as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Cabell

What is the meaning of the name Cabell ?

The baby name Cabell is a Male name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced /ˈkeɪbəl/ (KAY-bəl).

Cabell is English in Origin.

Cabell is an English surname that later became a given name, pronounced CAB-uhl. It most likely stems from Capel/Capell, from Anglo-Norman French capele/capelle "chapel," applied to someone who lived by a chapel or came from places called Capel; some scholars also link it to Middle English capel "horse" (from Latin caballus), giving a secondary sense of "horseman" or "groom."

Records cluster in Devon - note Richard Cabell of Buckfastleigh (d. 1677), whose legend helped inspire Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles - and in colonial Virginia, where the Cabell family was prominent; the surname then migrated into first-name use in the American South. Variants and cognates include Cabel, Cable, Capel, and Capell; Cab works as a familiar short form. Notable bearer: jazz bandleader Cab Calloway (born Cabell Calloway III). Today, Cabell remains rare, with a genteel, old-Virginia flavor.