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The ansell Surname

ansell Name Meaning and History

  1. English and German: from a vernacular form of the personal name Anselmus (see Anselm).
  2. Swedish: compound name composed of an unexplained first element (perhaps part of a place name) + the common surname ending -ell, which is from the Latin adjectival ending -elius.

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ansell Family Facts

Distribution of ansell Families in the US in 1920
Number of ansell families
 29-55
 10-28
 1-9
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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