Castillo (surname)

Castillo is a Spanish surname meaning "castle". The Portuguese version of this surname is Castilho.

People

Notable people with the surname include:

Actors, singers, musicians

Military figures

Sports figures

Baseball

Basketball

  • Liset Castillo (born 1973), Cuban basketball player
  • Sauce Castillo, nickname of Canadian basketball player Nik Stauskas (born 1993)

Boxing

Football (soccer)

Other sports

Painters, sculptors

Politicians

Writers, novelists, poets

Others

Fictional characters

Geographical distribution

As of 2014, 24.8% of all known bearers of the surname Castillo were residents of Mexico (frequency 1:191), 9.4% Venezuela (1:122), 8.1% of the Philippines (1:479), 7.6% of the United States (1:1,813), 7.3% of Colombia (1:249), 6.6% of Peru (1:184), 4.1% of Chile (1:164), 4.1% of the Dominican Republic (1:98), 4.0% of Argentina (1:413), 3.6% of Guatemala (1:172), 3.4% of Spain (1:530), 2.8% of Cuba (1:158), 2.5% of Panama (1:61), 2.3% of Ecuador (1:267), 2.2% of Honduras (1:152), 2.1% of Nicaragua (1:109), 1.3% of El Salvador (1:180) and 1.2% of Costa Rica (1:152).

In Spain, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:530) in the following autonomous communities:

In Panama, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:61) in the following provinces:

In the United States, the frequency of Castillo was higher than national average (1:1,813) in the following states:[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ Castillo surname distribution