Cable

Cable is the 3,799th most common surname in the United States, shared by 9,124 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 32,800.

By the numbers

People: 9,124
Rank: 3,799th
How common: 1 in 32,800
Per 100,000: 3.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Anglo-Norman

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Cable described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 88.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Black, not Hispanic 2.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Cable

Vince Cable (born 1943)British politician
George Washington Cable (1844–1925)American novelist

People named Cable with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Cable

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.