Assel

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Asel in TR Türkiye, US United States, AT Austria and 14 more, Асель in KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan, RU Russia and 4 more and Ассел in IT Italy.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Assel is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name180 records spelled Assel3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Kazakhstan, United States

  Also written Ăśsel, Assél

32 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Assel is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Dutch, a hamlet in Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Netherlands

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In German, woodlouse, slater, pill bug

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In gml, armpit

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Assel Terlikbayevaresearcher
• Assel KanayKZKazakhstani karateka
• Asel SartbaevaKGnot in their usual nameresearcher

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 75 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Assel?

We estimate roughly 19 thousand people bear Assel (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Assel have the most bearers?

Assel is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled asel.

How common is Assel compared with other names?

In Türkiye, Assel is the 771st most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.

Is Assel a male or female name?

Assel is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.