Castles Coat of Arms and Surname Origin

Heraldry is personal: arms associated with the Castle surname were borne by specific families, and sharing the name does not mean sharing the blazon.

Family name meaning

Castles is an established spelling of the English surname Castle. The name is usually explained as “one who lived or worked at a castle”.

Castles adds a patronymic ending to Castle, meaning ‘son of’ or ‘of the family of’. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. You may also find the name written Castell. The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Castles with 858 bearers, at rank 27,950. That is enough to place it in the top 50,000 American surnames. Castles sounds close to Castillos, so it can help to search both.

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