Heraldry and the Kassel Surname

People named Kassel share a German surname with a long history. Smith's 1956 dictionary gives the meaning “one who came from Kassel, in Prussia”.

• Similar-sounding surnames on Herald Lab: Kessel and Kissel.
• Place names like this marked newcomers by where they had come from.
• 1,278 Americans were listed as Kassel in the 2010 census. 330 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Kassel name at birth. There were 11 such births in the 1890s and 31 in the 1990s.

Arms associated with the name

There is no single Kassel family crest for all bearers; the honest first step is to find out which Kassel line, if any, bore arms. For the full story, order the Kassel surname pack.