Castellanos
surname · Latin script
Meaning: masculine plural of castellano
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Castellanos is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. In Guatemala it is the 19th most common surname.
- HNHonduras≈1 in 315(inferred from the name graph)
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 746
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 951
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 386 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 315 (inferred from the name graph)
≈46,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Honduras, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
masculine plural of castellano
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Castellanos 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #154 | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 42 | Castellanos | 160 |
| US United States | — | 30,859 | 1 in 11K | 31K | Castellanos | 386 |
| VE Venezuela | #173 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 951 | — | Castellanos | 67 |
| HN Honduras | #33 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 315 | — | Castellanos | 67 |
| GT Guatemala | #19 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 746 | — | Castellanos | 89 |
| SV El Salvador | #197 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Castellanos | 50 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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)
Castellanos is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Asturian, masculine plural of castellanu
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)
- Juan de Castellanosb. 1522ESSpanish military poet and priest
- Joaquín Ninb. 1879CUnot in their usual nameSpanish composer and pianist (1879-1949)
- Rosario Castellanosb. 1925MXMexican writer (1925-1974)
- Jorge Valdanob. 1955ARnot in their usual nameArgentine association football player and manager (born 1955)
- Vincent Castellanosb. 1961USactor from the United States
- Adriana Fonsecab. 1979MXnot in their usual nameMexican actress
- Walter Lópezb. 1980GTnot in their usual nameGuatemalan football referee
- Nicholas Castellanosb. 1992USAmerican baseball player (born 1992)
- Valentín Mariano José Castellanos Giménezb. 1998ARArgentine footballer (born 1998)
- Deyna Castellanosb. 1999VEVenezuelan footballer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 28 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 31K | #1,106 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 31K | #1,138 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 21K | #1,568 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 42 | #74 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Castellanos mean, and where does it come from?
- masculine plural of castellano Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Castellanos have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 46 thousand people named Castellanos in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled castellanos.
- How common is the name Castellanos?
- In the United States, the national register counted 30,859 people named Castellanos in 2010, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Castellanos compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Castellanos is the 154th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/castellanosThe 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, “Castellanos” — the 154th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.