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The castell Surname

castell Name Meaning and History

  1. English: variant spelling of Castle.
  2. Manx: from a short form of the Old Norse personal name Ásketill, composed of the elements áss ‘god’ + ketill ‘kettle’.
  3. Catalan: topographic name from Catalan castell ‘castle’, a derivative of Late Latin castellum ‘castle’ (a diminutive of Latin castrum ‘fort’, ‘Roman walled city’). Compare Spanish Castillo and Occitan (southern French) Castel.
  4. Probably an altered spelling of German Kastel.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of castell Families in the US in 1920
Number of castell families
 12-21
 5-11		 1-4
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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