Røssel
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Røssel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 55K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 12Kas Rossel
- BEBelgium1 in 49Kas Rossel
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Røssel itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 174 (measured from records)
- 1 in 55K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600 named Rössel, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Røssel in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled Rossel in US United States, CH Switzerland, BE Belgium, Rössel in DE Germany and Roessel in NL Netherlands.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Røssel is found
(measured from records)Røssel counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Rössel | 71 |
| CH Switzerland | 691as Rossel | 1 in 12K | 691 | Rossel | 30 |
| US United States | 412as Rossel | 1 in 807K | 555 | Rossel | 174 |
| NL Netherlands | 324as Rossel | 1 in 53K | 324 | Roessel | 48 |
| AR Argentina | 280as Rossel | 1 in 162K | 280 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 237as Rossel | 1 in 49K | 237 | Rossel | 17 |
| DK Denmark | 107 | 1 in 55K | 107 | Røssel | 17 |
| UY Uruguay | 66as Rossel | 1 in 51K | 66 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Dorthe Emilie Røsselb. 1934Danish author, member of WWII resistance
- Alexander Kamstrup Røsselb. 2007Danish cyclist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Røssel?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Rössel in Germany, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Switzerland, United States, Netherlands and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Røssel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Røssel is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 55 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Røssel?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 107 people named Røssel, about 1 in 55 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Røssel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/r%C3%B8sselThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Røssel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.