Family name origins & meanings
- Spanish : from the personal name Rogel, Spanish form of French Roger.
- German : of uncertain origin; perhaps a nickname for a mischievous person, from Middle High German rogel ‘loose’.
- Slovenian : nickname or topographic name from rogelj ‘horn’, ‘point’, as a topographic name probably denoting someone who lived on a horn-shaped spur or ridge of a hill or on a pointed piece of land.