Family name origins & meanings
- English (mainly Devon and Cornwall) : nickname from a diminutive of Middle English, Old French rond, rund ‘fat’, ‘round’. Compare Round.
- English : habitational name from Rundale in the parish of Shoreham, Kent, named from Old English rūm(ig) ‘roomy’, ‘spacious’ + dæl ‘valley’.
- Swedish : ornamental name composed of the elements rund ‘round’ + the common suffix -ell, from the Latin adjectival suffix -elius.
- Altered spelling of German Rundel, from a pet form of a Germanic personal name based on rūn ‘secret’, ‘rune’, ‘cryptogram’.