# Castiel (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/castiel/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 3,924 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 3,891 / 33 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 243, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 5 | 17,064 |
| 2014 | 5 | 17,085 |
| 2015 | 5 | 16,977 |
| 2016 | 7 | 13,180 |
| 2018 | 6 | 14,142 |
| 2020 | 5 | 15,592 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 84 | 1,739 |
| 2012 | 123 | 1,369 |
| 2013 | 210 | 949 |
| 2014 | 255 | 864 |
| 2015 | 276 | 821 |
| 2016 | 315 | 769 |
| 2017 | 286 | 798 |
| 2018 | 309 | 761 |
| 2019 | 337 | 723 |
| 2020 | 255 | 887 |
| 2021 | 301 | 809 |
| 2022 | 301 | 825 |
| 2023 | 249 | 926 |
| 2024 | 306 | 817 |
| 2025 | 224 | 1,009 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 14 | 1,600 |
| 2012 | 17 | 1,430 |
| 2013 | 13 | 1,706 |
| 2014 | 22 | 1,178 |
| 2015 | 20 | 1,279 |
| 2016 | 19 | 1,363 |
| 2017 | 20 | 1,289 |
| 2018 | 8 | 2,445 |
| 2019 | 20 | 1,253 |
| 2020 | 7 | 2,682 |
| 2021 | 16 | 1,516 |
| 2022 | 14 | 1,692 |
| 2023 | 17 | 1,461 |
| 2024 | 11 | 2,088 |
| 2025 | 11 | 2,133 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.