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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : probably a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place.
  • Probably an altered spelling of German Rams(e)l, Dutch Ramsel, a habitational name from Ramsel in Antwerp province, Belgium; a group of people migrated from there to Swabia in 1570.
  • In some instances the German name may have derived from a nickname for a roguish person.

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