About the Castell Surname

Genealogists group Castell with Castle. Taken at its root, Castell points to “one who lived or worked at a castle”.

A variant of Castle

Before spelling was fixed, Castle was also written Castell. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.

Spain's INE counts 3,981 residents with Castell as first surname and 3,876 with it as second. 686 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Castell name at birth. There were 16 such births in the 1890s and 65 in the 1990s.

Heraldry and the Castell name

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

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