Kastor
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the Roman personal name Castor (meaning ‘beaver’)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kastor is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 234K
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 263K
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.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 142 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 234K (inferred from the name graph)
≈390 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the Roman personal name Castor (meaning ‘beaver’). It was the name of the patron saint of Koblenz, a 4th century priest and missionary who worked in the area of the Mosel.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kastor 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 263K | — | Kastor | 1 |
| US United States | 306 | 1 in 1.1M | 320 | Kastor | 142 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈94 est. | ≈1 in 348K | — | Kastor | 8 |
| DE Germany | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 860K | listed | Kastor | 30 |
| IT Italy | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | 1 | Kastor | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 28 | 1 in 364K | 28 | Kastor | 7 |
| DK Denmark | 10 | 1 in 587K | 10 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 234K | 6 | — | 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)
Kastor is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, ) Castor: männl. Vom. grie chischen Ursprungs. Nach der griechischen
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Russian, var of Kastorii.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Filipino, beaver
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, dabar
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
In Basque, "Gastador" A . v. gastalari .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)
- Deena Kastorb. 1973USAmerican long distance runner and marathoner
- Werner Kastorb. 2000DEGerman journalist
- Robert KastorFRFrench artist
- Shirley S. KastorUSWyoming politician
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 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 320 | #66,670 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 306 | #64,891 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 300 | #62,396 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 28 | #19,821 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 10 | #40,894 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 6 | #15,000 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 6 | #15,290 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- Where does the name Kastor come from?
- from the Roman personal name Castor (meaning ‘beaver’). It was the name of the patron saint of Koblenz, a 4th century priest and missionary who worked in the area of the Mosel. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Kastor mean?
- Recorded meaning: from the Roman personal name Castor (meaning ‘beaver’).
- In which country does Kastor have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 387 people named Kastor in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kastor.
- How common is the name Kastor?
- In the United States, the national register counted 306 people named Kastor in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kastorThe 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, “Kastor”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.