Rossell Family History

English (of Norman origin): from the Anglo-Norman French personal name Ros(c)el, a diminutive of Rosce (see Ross). Compare the double diminutive Roscelin with which Ro(s)cel or Ros(s)el was probably freely interchangeable. English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Rosel in Calvados.

English: variant of Russell with which the name in 1 above was easily confused. English: habitational name from Rossall in Poulton Le Fylde (Lancashire). The etymology of the placename may derive from Old Norse hross ‘horse’ + hali ‘tail’ in the sense ‘narrow strip of land’ or from a British word related to Welsh rhos ‘moor, heath, plain’ + Old English halh ‘nook, corner of land’.

The land is low-lying and level, forming a headland between the Wyre and the sea. The name was easily confused with Russell. English: perhaps a habitational name from Rossall (Shropshire), probably from Old English hros ‘horse’ + halh. It is not clear whether this surname has survived into modern times.

Catalan: nickname for someone with red hair from a diminutive of ros ‘red’. Catalan: possibly also a habitational name from Rossell, a town in Castelló de la Plana.

Americanized form of German, French, Dutch, and Flemish Rossel or of its German archaic variant Roszel.