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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : from Dutch kasteel ‘castle’ (from Picard castel, Old French chastel), hence a topographic name or a metonymic occupational name for someone who lived or worked in a castle.
  • Perhaps an altered spelling of French Castille.

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