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From a place surname · Spanish

Cabrera

"place of goats"

Say it

kah-BREH-rah

Where it comes from

cabra (goat) + -era (place of), from Latin capraria

Meaning of the surname Cabrera

Cabrera is a Spanish surname of the from a place type meaning "place of goats". It is one of the 200 most common surnames in Mexico.

Taken from a town, region, or landscape feature in Spain, or later in Mexico: Castillo (castle), Rivera (riverbank), Navarro (from Navarre), Ibarra (Basque valley).

In Mexico a person carries two surnames, the father's and then the mother's, so Cabrera appears as either half of a pair: Cabrera García, López Cabrera. Read how the two-surname system works.

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