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.