Ángel
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ángel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Puerto Rico it is the 3rd most common given name. Recorded meaning: angel (an incorporeal and sometimes divine messenger from a deity).
- PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 79(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 80
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 159
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ángel itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #100 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 552 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 79 (inferred from the name graph)
348,575 people, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Puerto Rico, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Angel in US United States, AR Argentina, ES Spain and 4 more and Ангел in BG Bulgaria.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
angel (an incorporeal and sometimes divine messenger from a deity)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ángel counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #196 | 348,575 | 1 in 954 | 264K | Angel | 552 |
| EC Ecuador | #6 | 210,064 | 1 in 80 | 210K | Angel | 105 |
| ES Spain | #13 | 202,742 | 1 in 247 | 210K | Angel | 297 |
| AR Argentina | #17 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 241 | 4.3K | Angel | 166 |
| VE Venezuela | #22 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 159 | — | Angel | 134 |
| BG Bulgaria | #17 | 43,731as Ангел | 1 in 159 | 44K | Ангел | 146 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #3 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 79 | 6 | Angel | 113 |
| PY Paraguay | #485 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 208 | — | Angel | 73 |
348,575 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names; NSI — most common given names (population); SSA Baby Names — Puerto Rico (state file PR.txt). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ángel is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Mensajero, enviado
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ángel Castro y Arguízb. 1875ESfather of Fidel Castro
- Ángel Amadeo labrunab. 1918ARArgentine footballer
- Alberto Fernándezb. 1959ARnot in their usual namepresident of Argentina from 2019 to 2023
- Javier Bardemb. 1969ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actor
- Míchel Salgadob. 1975ESnot in their usual nameSpanish footballer
- Javier Balboab. 1985ESnot in their usual nameEquatorial Guinean association football player
- Ángel Di Maríab. 1988ARArgentine footballer (born 1988)
- Axel Witselb. 1989BEnot in their usual nameBelgian association football player (born 1989)
- Miguel Almirónb. 1994PYnot in their usual nameParaguayan association football player (born 1994)
- Ángel Correab. 1995ARArgentine association football player
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(measured from records)
Attested in 30 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | Nombres de Persona en Español (Becker, 2004) | — | — | — |
| ES Spain | 25,000 Nombres de Bebé (Vázquez de Haro, 2005) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ángel mean, and where does it come from?
- angel (an incorporeal and sometimes divine messenger from a deity) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Ángel a male or female name?
- Ángel is a male 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.
- What are other forms of the name Ángel?
- In the etymology graph, Angelo, Ange and DeAngelo are forms of the same name in other languages; Angelino is a recorded short or pet form.
- In which country does Ángel have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 349 thousand people named Ángel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled angel.
- How common is the name Ángel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 348,575 people named Ángel in 2020, about 1 in 954 residents.
- How common is Ángel compared with other names?
- In the United States, Ángel is the 196th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ángel” — the 196th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.