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castle Name Meaning and History

English: topographic name from Anglo-Norman French, Middle English castel ‘castle’, ‘fortified building or set of buildings’, especially the residence of a feudal lord (Late Latin castellum, a diminutive of castrum ‘fort’, ‘Roman walled city’). The name would also have denoted a servant who lived and worked at such a place.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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castle Family Facts

Distribution of castle Families in the US in 1920
Number of castle families
 164-325
 55-163		 1-54
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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