Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Casto isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1915. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Casto through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 21
- 21 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1940
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1978. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 6 in 1940. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 219 as a first name in 2020; 7,455 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Casto’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Casto
- CastoSpanish footballerborn 1982
- Casto PlasenciaSpanish painter (1846-1890)
- Casto NopoEquatoguinean football managerborn 1973
- Casto Méndez NúñezSpanish admiral (1824–1869)
- Casto Innocenzio AnsaldiItalian professor/theologian/archaeologist1710–1780
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
If you love Casto, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
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>99% boys
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>99% boys
Carvel
“from the village near the swamp”
>99% boys
Coburn
“from the rooster's stream”
>99% boys
Karon
“one who is pure; virginal”
>99% boys
Carles
Carles is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic. It is used in Spanish and Catalan.
>99% boys
Aniceto
“one who remains unconquered”
>99% boys