The Cabos Family Name

Cabos is best understood together with Cabo: both are Portuguese spellings of a single family name. At root, the name means “Cape / corporal”.

• The extra “s” in Cabos is a spelling habit rather than a different name.
• Before spelling was standardised, one family could appear under several forms.
• In the Spanish register, Cabos appears 257 times as a first surname and 234 times as a second one. French civil records give 895 births under the name Cabos from 1891 to 2000, peaking in 1901–1910.

Heraldry and the Cabos name

There is no single Cabos family crest for every bearer. Herald Lab researches the arms historically associated with the name and explains whose they were. Want more than a summary? See the Cabos family name pack.