Family name origins & meanings
- French : from a frequent Old French personal name, a pet form of Ace or Asse, Germanic A(t)zo, a pet form of any of the many Germanic compound names that had adal ‘noble’ as their first element.
- Dutch : from the Dutch cognate of this personal name, Asselijn.
- An Asselin from Rouen was in Chateau Richer by 1662.