Cassell
surname · Latin script
Meaning: (i) Person from Cassel, northern France, or Kassel, Germany ('fort'); (ii) a different form of Castle (Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history])
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Dominica, 2025
Cassell is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 7,587 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Cassell is also written Касселл in Cyrillic.
- DMDominica1 in 4.4K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 32K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 33Kfew records
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 361 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.4K (inferred from the name graph)
7,587 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Dominica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Cassell in other scripts: Cyrillic
(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)(i) Person from Cassel, northern France, or Kassel, Germany ('fort'); (ii) a different form of Castle.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where the surname Cassell is found
(measured from records)Cassell 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 | 7,587 | 1 in 44K | 7.6K | Cassell | 361 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Cassell | 138 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Cassell | 95 |
| AU Australia | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Cassell | 81 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 125K | — | Cassell | 16 |
| SG Singapore | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Cassell | 5 |
| DM Dominica | 17 | 1 in 4.4K | 17 | — | — |
| SM San Marino | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Cassell | 1 |
7,587 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025. 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)Cassell 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 English, reference book publisher
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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)- Ollan Cassellb. 1937USAmerican sprinter
- Sam Cassellb. 1969USAmerican basketball coach and former player
- Seth Cassellb. 1986USAmerican actor
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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cassell mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) Person from Cassel, northern France, or Kassel, Germany ('fort'); (ii) a different form of Castle. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Cassell?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 7.6 thousand people named Cassell, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cassell. After it come United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Cassell most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cassell is densest in Dominica — about 1 in 4.4 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Cassell?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,587 people named Cassell in 2010, about 1 in 44 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/cassellThe 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, “Cassell” — ranked 4485th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.