Other theory about the origin of surname is the Rang a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France.
Place where the estate would have been named after this place in Portugal with the addition of the suffix EL The Surname came from the estate of “Ronge or Range”, later Rangel, located in Ribeira de Coselhas, Coimbra Portugal.
It belonged to Gundisalvus and was taken from the Moors, during the siege of Coimbra in 1117 in the Christian reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula.
The surname is found in Portugal, Spain, Germany, France, England, United States, Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico, Russia, East Timor, and Angola.
In Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Hawaii, New England in general and in The United Kingdom the surname is closely related to recent Portuguese migrations.