Castellanos

At the 2020 census, 31,212 Americans bore the surname Castellanos — 1,106th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 9,576.

By the numbers

People: 31,212
Rank: 1,106th
How common: 1 in 9,576
Per 100,000: 10.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Castellanos described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 94.3%
White, not Hispanic 4.5%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Castellanos

Rosario Castellanos (1925–1974)Mexican writer
Taty Castellanos (born 1998)Argentine footballer
Deyna Castellanos (born 1999)Venezuelan footballer
Julieta Castellanos (born 1954)Honduran sociologist
Juan de Castellanos (1522–1607)Spanish military poet and priest
Nicolás Castellanos (1935–2025)Spanish priest and missionary

People named Castellanos with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Castellanos

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.