Keßel
surname · Latin script
Keßel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 8.3Kas Castell(measured from records)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 8.7Kas Castle
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 9.3Kas Castle
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Keßel itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 429 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.4K (inferred from the name graph)
20,534 named Castle, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cayman Islands, est., as Castle
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Castle in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 1 more and Kessel in DE Germany, ES Spain, NL Netherlands.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Keßel 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 | — | 20,534as Castle | 1 in 16K | 21K | Castle | 429 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | listed | Castle | 219 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Kessel | 133 |
| ES Spain | — | 3,981as Castell | 1 in 13K | 4K | Kessel | 34 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 8.7K | 1 | Castle | 146 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 410as Castell | 1 in 8.3K | 410 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | #376 | 174as Castel | 1 in 99K | 174 | Kessel | 82 |
| KY Cayman Islands | — | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Castle | 2 |
20,534 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Keßel have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 21 thousand people named Castle, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Keßel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 20,534 people named Castle in 2010, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
- How common is Keßel compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Keßel is the 376th most common surname of 284,143 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ke%C3%9FelThe 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, “Keßel” — the 376th most common surname in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.