The story
- Scottish Gaelic · derived fromFriseal
- Anglo-Norman · derived fromfresel“strawberry”
- Old French · derived fromfrisel“ribbon, tassel, fringe”
- English todayFrizzell
* As an English and Irish surname, from Old French frisel (“ribbon, tassel, fringe”), a nickname for someone with an ornate style of dress; see frise (“border, frieze”). * As a Scottish surname, from Anglo-Norman fresel (“strawberry”) (see fraise). * Also as a Scottish surname, Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Friseal, a Gaelicized form of Fraser.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.