The Cabral surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 23,128 people carried this name — #1,557 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 12,800 people counted. That is up 19% from 19,384 in 2000.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 51,944 people named Cabral live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
628 people named Cabral live in Switzerland.
They live in 20 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Vaud.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 111 people named Cabral.
Most of them — 92 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 13 départements, most often Puy-de-Dôme.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
20 people named Cabral is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Cabral in American newspapers,
1875–1919.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 7,627 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Cabral,
with a public archive behind them.
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Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467–1520 · explorer -
Jorge Cabral 1500–1599 · military personnel -
António Luís da Veiga Cabral e Câmara 1758–1819 · Catholic priest -
Basílio Cabral Teixeira de Queirós 1794–1878 · judge -
José Bernardo da Silva Cabral 1801–1869 · politician
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 224 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Cabral.
- Cabeza 924 · U.S. census
- Cabezas 2,909 · U.S. census
- Cabin 108 · U.S. census
- Cable 9,545 · U.S. census
- Cabo 368 · U.S. census
- Cabot 1,430 · U.S. census
- Cabrera 83,621 · U.S. census
- Cabrero 306 · U.S. census
- Cabrol 106 · U.S. census
- Cabus 175 · U.S. census
- Caby 162 · U.S. census
- Cacace 991 · U.S. census
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