Castela

surname · Latin script

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

Castela is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Castile (a medieval kingdom and former county in the Iberian Peninsula; the nucleus of modern Spain).

rarermore common
  • PTPortugal≈1 in 21K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ESSpain1 in 126K
  • AOAngola≈1 in 211K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

661 people

Sources
51 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)

Portugal, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Castile (a medieval kingdom and former county in the Iberian Peninsula; the nucleus of modern Spain)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Castela 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 Castela is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—6611 in 320K661Castela45
PT Portugal#754≈480 est.≈1 in 21K—Castela45
ES Spain—3971 in 126K397Castela49
FR France—≈220 est.≈1 in 303K23—1
AO Angola—≈150 est.≈1 in 211K—Castela7
FI Finland—≈22 est.≈1 in 252K—Castela1

661 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Castela is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain

    Also written Castéla, Castèla

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Castéla, Castelã

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Cástela

25 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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 8 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Castela
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—661#13,246
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—397#9,605
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—397#9,598
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196131—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195131—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197129—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198128—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)192128—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194124—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199123—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)193123—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)190118—

Reference works 1

  • 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 Castela mean, and where does it come from?
Castile (a medieval kingdom and former county in the Iberian Peninsula; the nucleus of modern Spain) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Castela?
In the etymology graph, Castelhano is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Castela have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 661 people named Castela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled castela.
How common is the name Castela?
In Brazil, the national register counted 661 people named Castela, about 1 in 320 thousand residents.
How common is Castela compared with other names?
In Portugal, Castela is the 754th most common surname of 45,564 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, “Castela” — the 754th most common surname in Portugal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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