German: habitational name from a place of this name in northeastern
Hesse, so named from Frankish castella, cassela
‘fortification’, a military term from Late Latin castellum
‘fortified position’, ‘fort’, or a topographic name from the same
word.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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