Castiel

Last seen for girls in 2020 at #15,088 · #1,008 for boys in 2025, 224 births
Given to boys 99.2% of the time

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Peak · boys
2019 · 337 births
Debut · boys
13 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
3,891
since 2009

Castiel over time

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Rank among boys' names. Castiel has never cracked the top 700 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202019peak #723, 2019boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#1,008224
2024#817306
2023#926249
2022#824301
2021#809301
2020#15,0885#886255
2019#723337
2018#13,7936#761309
2017#798286
2016#12,8767#769315
2015#16,4195#821276
2014#16,5135#864255
2013#16,5475#948210
2012#1,367123
2011#1,73884
2010#2,57947
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First appearance
2009

The first year at least five boys were named Castiel! It came in at #6,436, and was given to 13 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 2009, when fewer than 14 boys a year got the name.

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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 191 spots since 2024 (#817#1,008)
  • 122 spots since 2020 (#886#1,008)
  • 187 spots since 2015 (#821#1,008)
  • Biggest jump: 419 spots in 2013 (#1,367#948)
  • Biggest drop: 191 spots in 2025 (#817#1,008)
Rise & fade · boys
10 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 2009
  • Peaked 2019 at #723 (337 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 12 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 2013–2024
Share of babies · boys
1 in 5,324
  • Highest: 1 in 5,324 boys born in 2019 were named Castiel (0.02%)
  • Latest: 1 in 7,625 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 57.6% of all boys named Castiel (2,242) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
2000s13#6,436 (2009)#6,436
2010s2,242#723 (2019)#1,137
2020s1,636#809 (2021)#878

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Castiel in 2019

boys
#723
337 births · 1 in 5,324 boys

Top boys' names in 2019

  1. #1Liam20,631
  2. #2Noah19,178
  3. #3Oliver13,967
  4. #4William13,658
  5. #5Elijah13,436
  6. #6James13,198
  7. #7Benjamin13,044
  8. #8Lucas12,483
  9. #9Mason11,484
  10. #10Alexander11,327
  11. #723Castiel337
More about 2019

boys

1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 5,324 of them was named Castiel, which outranked 94.9% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Castiel
  1. #720Ben339
  2. #720Casen339
  3. #720Kyro339
  4. #723Castiel337
  5. #723Orlando337
  6. #725Grey335
  7. #725Jedidiah335
  8. #725Kenzo335

Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2018
Risers
  1. 5,830Sekani#6,703#873
  2. 5,230Ermias#5,770#540
  3. 654Amias#1,478#824
  4. 623Kyro#1,343#720
  5. 512Aziel#1,465#953
Fallers
  1. 376Jaxtyn#776#1,152
  2. 252Brysen#860#1,112
  3. 220Coen#814#1,034
  4. 219Chad#899#1,118
  5. 219Imran#933#1,152

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2019