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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English and German : from a vernacular form of the personal name Anselmus (see Anselm).
  • Swedish : compound name composed of an unexplained first element (perhaps part of a place name) + the common surname ending -ell, which is from the Latin adjectival ending -elius.

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