Kastan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: probably a respelling of Kasten, either a habitational name from a place so named, for example in Styria and Upper Austria, or from the Frisian personal name Karsten, equivalent to Christian
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kəstæn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kastan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.6M(measured from records)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 88K
- CZCzechia1 in 145K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 132 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 88K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kaştan in TR Türkiye.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
probably a respelling of Kasten, either a habitational name from a place so named, for example in Styria and Upper Austria, or from the Frisian personal name Karsten, equivalent to Christian.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kastan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 726K | — | Kastan | 1 |
| US United States | 209 | 1 in 1.6M | 212 | Kastan | 132 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 473K | — | Kaştan | 3 |
| CZ Czechia | 74 | 1 in 145K | 74 | — | — |
| CA Canada | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Kastan | 6 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 354K | — | Kastan | 1 |
| EE Estonia | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 88K | 19 | — | 2 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 415K | — | Kastan | 1 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017; the ee-stat-nimed 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Kastan 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 German, variant of Kesten 1; also of Sorbian origin.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Finnish, first-person singular present indicative of kastaa
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, chestnut
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)
- Josef Kastanb. 1795CZAustrian architect
- Josef Kastanb. 1832ATarchitect from Austria (1832-1894)
- Isidor Kastanb. 1840DEGerman journalist (1840-1931)
- Zerline Silbersteinb. 1870PLnot in their usual nameHolocaust victim (born 1870)
- Auguste Weissb. 1872PLnot in their usual nameholocaust victim, b. 1872-08-08
- Haim Kestenb. 1935ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli Basketball Player
- Klaus Kastanb. 1952DEGerman journalist
- Michael B. KastanUSAmerican pharmacology and cancer biology researcher
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)
Attested in 14 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 212 | #92,936 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 209 | #88,685 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 206 | #84,631 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 19 | #5,947 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 9 | #11,532 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Kastan mean, and where does it come from?
- probably a respelling of Kasten, either a habitational name from a place so named, for example in Styria and Upper Austria, or from the Frisian personal name Karsten, equivalent to Christian. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kastan?
- A machine transcription gives /kəstæn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kastan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Kastan in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kastan.
- How common is the name Kastan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 209 people named Kastan in 2010, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kastanThe 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, “Kastan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.