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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Asturian-Leonese and Galician (Castrillón) : habitational name from any of the three places named Castrillón, from an augmentative of castrillo ‘fort’, in Asturies, or perhaps from either of the two places so called in the provinces of Lugo and Pontevedra in Galicia.

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