Family name origins & meanings
- Catalan : variant of Catalan Rossell.
- Catalan : possibly also a habitational name from Rossell, a town in Castelló de la Plana.
- Swedish : ornamental name composed of the elements ros ‘rose’ + the common surname suffix -ell, from the Latin adjectival ending -elius.
- Probably an altered spelling of German Rösel (see Roesel).