Castilla

loc · Latin script

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

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

Castilla is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Peru.

rarermore common
  • PEPeru
  • ESSpain
  • COColombia

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Peru (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
258 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

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 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Castilla counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Castilla is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PE Peru——Castilla70
ES Spain—15KCastilla160
CO Colombia—12Castilla96
PY Paraguay——Castilla5
MA Morocco——Castilla4
AR Argentina—2.1KCastilla68
US United States—2.3K—258

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: INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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)

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

  • Russian surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, Italy

    Also written Castiglia, Castile, Кастилья, Кастилия

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)

Castilla 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 French, third-person singular past historic of castiller

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

120014001600180020002200Fadrique Alfonso, Lord of Haro, b. 1334Jean de Castille, b. 1355Gabriel de Castilla, b. 1577Ramón Castilla, b. 1797Wifredo Lam, b. 1902Manuel Castilla, b. 1918Carlos Castilla del Pino, b. 1922Vinny Castilla, b. 1967Carlos Castilla, b. 1979Juan Castilla, b. 2004

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 24 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Castilla
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—15K#351
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—15K#351
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.3K#12,680
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—2.1K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.1K#14,427
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.6K#16,219
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—12#104
US United Stateswru 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 Castilla 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).
In which country does Castilla have the most bearers?
Castilla is most frequently recorded in Peru, where it is most often spelled castilla.

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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, “Castilla”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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