Given name & surname · also Spanish
Rogel
“horn point”
Rogel is a surname with more than one origin.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Rogel goes back to Slovene rogelj, meaning “horn point.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Rogel has more than one origin: in one tradition, it comes from Spanish Rogel; as a German surname, it comes from Middle High German rogel.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In English usage, Rogel as a surname developed from Rogelj.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1994. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Rogel through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 10
- 10 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1994
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2002. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 337 as a first name in 2020; 2,465 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Rogel’s family of names
In English usage, Rogel as a surname developed from the Slovenian form Rogelj.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Rogel
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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