Casto — boys' name
21 babies named Casto in U.S. Social Security records since 1915, with the highest year being 1940. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
29% of everyone ever named Casto was born in this single decade.
6 babies were named Casto in 1940 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Casto
The Social Security Administration has registered 21 babies named Casto between 1915 and 1978, spanning 64 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Casto currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1978. The name reached its historical peak in 1940, when 6 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Casto performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 6 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Casto shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade.
No etymological entry is currently available for Casto in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 21 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Casto at a glance
Last recorded 1978Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Casto popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1978–1915
- Peak year (1940)
- 6
- Annual births at peak — across 64 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1978.
21 total births across 64 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1940 with 6 births in a single year.
Casto by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1940s
- 6 births that decade — 29% of Casto's all-time total
Casto decade highlights
- Peak decade 6 births
- Runner-up 5 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1940s was Casto's strongest decade
6 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 29% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1915–1978 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.