Castiel
Just fourteen Polish men carry it, so most people here will never meet one. The name is Hebrew, and it means "shield of god".
Castiel Pronunciation
Castiel is pronounced TSAHST-yel (/ˈt͡sastjɛl/).
What Castiel means
Where Castiel comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Castiel comes from Hebrew. The meaning sits in its ending. The suffix -el means God, the same -el that closes Michael, Gabriel, and Daniel. Read through that suffix, the name means shield of God.
That -el marks a whole family of Hebrew names, and many of them were later assigned to angels in Jewish and Christian tradition. Castiel belongs to that shape, a human syllable bound to the divine one. The first part carries the sense of a shield or a covering, and the -el fixes whose shield it is.
In Poland the name stands outside the church calendar, so it has no settled imieniny. A boy named Castiel would hear it missing when a teacher reads the register on the first day of school. The Polish form of the meaning stays plain: tarcza boga, shield of God.
When Castiel celebrates name day
Castiel appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 18 September.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Castiel
1 in 1524728 men in Poland is named Castiel. 14 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #12550 among male names.
Castiel's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Castiel as a middle name
Castiel is a first name for 14 men in Poland and a middle name for another 4, a 78/22 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 5265th, between Carolus (4) and Cecilio (4).
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#5263 Carlito4
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#5264 Carolus4
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#5265 Castiel4
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#5266 Cecilio4
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#5267 Cedrick4