Cabal
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: upright, honest
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kaβal/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cabal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- COColombia≈1 in 19K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 19K
- ESSpain1 in 40K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 166 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A putative, secret organization of individuals gathered for a political purpose.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Cabal is read(measured from records)
Cabal is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish54%
upright, honest
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English31%
A putative, secret organization of individuals gathered for a political purpose.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French6.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Cabal in French.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cabal counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Cabal | 40 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | Cabal | 8 |
| CO Colombia | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 4 | Cabal | 83 |
| ES Spain | 1,253 | 1 in 40K | 1.3K | Cabal | 89 |
| US United States | 752 | 1 in 442K | 845 | Cabal | 166 |
| UY Uruguay | 96 | 1 in 35K | 96 | Cabal | 15 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the co-datosgov-candidates register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Cabal is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Asturian, rational, reasonable, sane
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, complete, total
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, whole, complete
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, complete
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- José María Cabalb. 1770CORepublican military leader
- Juan Rodríguez Cabalb. 1886Dominican brother (1886-1970)
- Raymond Cabalb. 1888FRwrestler
- Hélio de Burgos Cabalb. 1915BRBrazilian diplomat and politician, federal deputy for the State of Bahia and ambassador to Japan, among other countries
- Graciela Cabalb. 1939ARArgentinian writer and journalist
- Fermín Cabalb. 1948ESSpanish film director, screenwriter, playwright, journalist and theatre director (1948–2023)
- Esteban Cabalb. 1958ESSpanish writer
- Juan Sebastián Cabalb. 1986COColombian tennis player
- Juan Cabalb. 2001COColombian association football player
- Pelayo Morillab. 2001ESnot in their usual nameSpanish association football player (2001-)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 24 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.3K | #3,631 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.3K | #3,629 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 845 | #29,734 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 752 | #30,916 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 644 | #33,425 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 96 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 4 | #112 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Cabal come from?
- A putative, secret organization of individuals gathered for a political purpose. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Cabal?
- A machine transcription gives /kaβal/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Cabal mean?
- In Spanish, upright, honest
- In which country does Cabal have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.8 thousand people named Cabal in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cabal.
- How common is the name Cabal?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,253 people named Cabal, about 1 in 40 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Cabal?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cabalThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Cabal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.