English and German: from a vernacular form of the personal name
Anselmus (see Anselm).
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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