The Caster surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 3,208 people carried this name — #10,041 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 91,700 people counted. That is up 5% from 3,065 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 71 people named Caster.
1 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 12 départements, most often Martinique.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
40 people named Caster is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Caster in American newspapers,
1907–1923.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 211,966 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Caster,
with a public archive behind them.
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George Caster 1907–1955 · baseball player -
Marcel Caster 1897–1949 · university teacher
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Marcel Caster 1907–2000 · patristic scholar
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Kenneth E. Caster 1908–1992 · university teacher
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Gilles Caster 1924–1994 · historian
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Romeo Ebeciljo Caster 1940–1978 · badminton player
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Caster.
- Castellini 376 · U.S. census
- Castellino 142 · U.S. census
- Castello 3,347 · U.S. census
- Castellon 8,041 · U.S. census
- Castells 164 · U.S. census
- Castellucci 671 · U.S. census
- Castiglia 1,010 · U.S. census
- Castiglione 2,139 · U.S. census
- Castiglioni 143 · U.S. census
- Castilla 2,071 · U.S. census
- Castille 2,821 · U.S. census
- Castillo 230,420 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Caster is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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