What We Know About the Meisel Surname

Here is what public records tell us about the Meisel last name. Wikidata records Meisel as a German family name. Standard surname dictionaries do not settle the origin of Meisel, so we research it family by family rather than guess.

The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Meisel with 1,858 bearers, at rank 15,700. That is enough to place it in the top 25,000 American surnames.

A coat of arms was granted to a particular family line, not to everyone named Meisel, so a shared surname is a clue rather than a claim to the arms. Want more than a summary? See the Meisel family name pack.