Gastelum
surname · Latin script
Meaning: probably a variant of Basque Gaztelu, a habitational name from any of the towns called Gaztelu in Araba, Biscay, Gipuzkoa and Navarre, in Basque Country
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/xastelum/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gastelum is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 48K(measured from records)
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 34K
- CACanada≈1 in 68K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 225 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)
6,880 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
probably a variant of Basque Gaztelu, a habitational name from any of the towns called Gaztelu in Araba, Biscay, Gipuzkoa and Navarre, in Basque Country. This variant is mainly found in Mexico.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gastelum 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 6,880 | 1 in 48K | 6.9K | Gastelum | 225 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Gastelum | 9 |
| DO Dominican Republic | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Gastelum | 5 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 160K | — | Gastelum | 10 |
| BR Brazil | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 994K | — | Gastelum | 7 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 102K | — | Gastelum | 15 |
| HN Honduras | — | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 130K | — | Gastelum | 4 |
| MX Mexico | #419 | — | — | 744 | Gastelum | 174 |
6,880 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ángel Maldonadob. 1973MXnot in their usual nameMexican footballer
- Carlos Gastelumb. 1979MXMexican baseball player (1979-)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.9K | #5,091 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.5K | #5,173 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.9K | #6,410 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 744 | #463 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Gastelum come from?
- probably a variant of Basque Gaztelu, a habitational name from any of the towns called Gaztelu in Araba, Biscay, Gipuzkoa and Navarre, in Basque Country. This variant is mainly found in Mexico. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Gastelum?
- A machine transcription gives /xastelum/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Gastelum mean?
- Recorded meaning: probably a variant of Basque Gaztelu, a habitational name from any of the towns called Gaztelu in Araba, Biscay, Gipuzkoa and Navarre, in Basque Country.
- In which country does Gastelum have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 6.9 thousand people named Gastelum, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gastelum.
- How common is the name Gastelum?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,880 people named Gastelum in 2010, about 1 in 48 thousand residents.
- How common is Gastelum compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Gastelum is the 419th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Gastelum” — the 419th most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.