Castelan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: one who lives in the castle
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/θastelan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Castelan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 92K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 130K
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 51K
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
- 165 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 51K (inferred from the name graph)
3,611 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
El Salvador, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
one who lives in the castle
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Castelan 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 | — | 3,611 | 1 in 92K | 3.6K | Castelan | 165 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,628 | 1 in 130K | 1.6K | Castelan | 73 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 286K | — | Castelan | 5 |
| SV El Salvador | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Castelan | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 683K | — | Castelan | 9 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 17 | 1 in 199K | 17 | Castelan | 5 |
| MX Mexico | #630 | — | — | 568 | Castelan | 130 |
3,611 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Castelan is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In frm, Castilian (person)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, castle keeper
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, CASTELÁN, -Ă, castelani, -e, s. m. și f. Persoană care stăpânește un castel, care locuiește într-un castel sau care îl îngrijește și îl administrează.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.6K | #9,048 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.3K | #9,350 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.1K | #13,459 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.6K | #5,904 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 568 | #567 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 17 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- What does the name Castelan mean, and where does it come from?
- one who lives in the castle Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- How do you pronounce Castelan?
- A machine transcription gives /θastelan/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Castelan have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.6 thousand people named Castelan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled castelan.
- How common is the name Castelan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,611 people named Castelan in 2010, about 1 in 92 thousand residents.
- How common is Castelan compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Castelan is the 630th 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, “Castelan” — the 630th most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.