Castiel

Where Castiel comes from

The dictionaries list Castiel as a given name — a male given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

Along the way
  1. 2009
    First appearance
    #6,436 among boys, 13 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2019
    Peak, #723
    337 babies named Castiel — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name.
Namesakes

No widely known Castiel turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.