Cassell

surname · Latin script

Meaning: (i) Person from Cassel, northern France, or Kassel, Germany ('fort'); (ii) a different form of Castle

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/ˈkæsɛɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Cassell is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 34K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CACanada≈1 in 37K
  • USUnited States1 in 44K

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)

7,587 people, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
361 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 4.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Dominica

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

CassellLatin(measured from records)
КасселлCyrillic(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.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Where in the world(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.

Where Cassell is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States7,5871 in 44K7.6KCassell361
GB United Kingdom≈1,900 est.≈1 in 34K—Cassell138
EG Egypt≈1,300 est.≈1 in 78K—Cassell2
CA Canada≈1,000 est.≈1 in 37K—Cassell95
BR Brazil≈590 est.≈1 in 356K—Cassell7
SG Singapore≈160 est.≈1 in 38K—Cassell5
DM Dominica171 in 4.4K17——
SM San Marino≈2 est.≈1 in 19K—Cassell1

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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Cassell is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Cassel-L

50 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

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)

18001850190019502000John Cassell, b. 1817Albert Cassell, b. 1895Alan Cassell, b. 1932Ollan Cassell, b. 1937Paul G. Cassell, b. 1959Justine Cassell, b. 1960Scott Cassell, b. 1960Sam Cassell, b. 1969Seth Cassell, b. 1986Syndicate, b. 1993

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)

FormalDear Cassell,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 18 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Cassell
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020107.6K#4,676
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020007.3K#4,485
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020207.1K#4,846
DM DominicaDominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025202517#210
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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 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].
How do you pronounce Cassell?
A machine transcription gives /ˈkæsɛɫ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Cassell have the most bearers?
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.
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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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”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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