girls:
33 births since 2013
#5683 (1st percentile)
boys:
3.4k births since 2009
#2157 (53rd percentile)
overall:
3.4k births since 2009
#4697 (39th percentile)
The name Castiel is the #4,697 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,386 recorded births since 2009. This represents the 39.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 39.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,157 (52.9% percentile) for all time with 3,353 births since 2009. For girls, it ranks #5,683 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 33 births since 2013.
Castiel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2009 (2009 for boys and 2013 for girls).
The name Castiel has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Castiel reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 34.1% percentile (ranked #605) with 174 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 174 births per million (ranked 34.1% percentile). In recent years, the popularity of this name for boys has remained relatively stable. Currently, Castiel ranks #670 for boys (26.5% percentile) with 135 births per million, which is 77.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Castiel reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #955) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Castiel".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Castiel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 35.9% confident that Castiel is pronounced as ka-STEE-ehl, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KA-stee-uhl, at 30.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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