Kästel
surname · Latin script
Kästel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: topographic name for someone living near a castle or fort, from Kastell ‘fort’, ‘citadel’ (Latin castellum).
- DEGermany≈1 in 140K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 788K
- LVLatvia≈1 in 13K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 136 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈570 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Latvia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kastel in US United States, LV Latvia, NZ New Zealand and 2 more.
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)
topographic name for someone living near a castle or fort, from Kastell ‘fort’, ‘citadel’ (Latin castellum). Equally, the surname could come from any of the numerous places in Germany so named (more usually written Kastell).
Sources 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kästel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 140K | — | Kästel | 45 |
| US United States | 422 | 1 in 788K | 432 | Kastel | 136 |
| LV Latvia | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Kastel | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 151K | — | Kastel | 11 |
| FR France | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 607K | 17 | — | — |
| AT Austria | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 297K | — | Kastel | 8 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 231K | — | Kastel | 1 |
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 2000; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
- Jutta Kästelb. 1946actress
- Tatjana Kästelb. 1982DEGerman actress
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 4 sources across 1 country.
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Kästel mean, and where does it come from?
- topographic name for someone living near a castle or fort, from Kastell ‘fort’, ‘citadel’ (Latin castellum). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74).
- In which country does Kästel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 574 people named Kästel in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kästel.
- How common is the name Kästel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 422 people named Kästel in 2010, about 1 in 788 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C3%A4stelThe 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, “Kästel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.