Cabazos Name Meaning, Origin and Heraldry

Genealogists group Cabazos with Cavazos. In origin, the name means “From Cavazos / hollow”.

A variant of Cavazos

Only a small detail separates the spellings: Cabazos has “b” where Cavazos has “v”. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists.

About 228 people in the United States were recorded as Cabazos in 2010, placing it 82,613 on the national list. 87% of them identified as Hispanic or Latino.

Heraldry and the Cabazos name

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Cabazos, so the heraldry linked to Cavazos is a starting point, not an automatic right.

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