Ross-El
surname · Latin script
Ross-El is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Kent. see Rossell .
- DEGermany≈1 in 64K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 807K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 12K
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 Ross-El itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 174 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Rossel in US United States, CH Switzerland, BE Belgium, Rössel in DE Germany, Roessel in NL Netherlands and Røssel in DK Denmark.
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(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): Kent. see Rossell .
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ross-El 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 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Rössel | 71 |
| CH Switzerland | 691 | 1 in 12K | 691 | Rossel | 30 |
| US United States | 412 | 1 in 807K | 555 | Rossel | 174 |
| NL Netherlands | 324 | 1 in 53K | 324 | Roessel | 48 |
| AR Argentina | 280 | 1 in 162K | 280 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 237 | 1 in 49K | 237 | Rossel | 17 |
| DK Denmark | 107as Røssel | 1 in 55K | 107 | Røssel | 17 |
| UY Uruguay | 66 | 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ross-El mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Kent. see Rossell . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- In which country does Ross-El have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Ross-El in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rössel.
- Where is Ross-El most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ross-El is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 12 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ross-El?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 691 people named Ross-El in 2024, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ross-elThe 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, “Ross-El”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.