Angel
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from a medieval nickname for someone angelic or for someone who played an angel in a pageant
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/anxɛl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Angel 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.
- 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 Angel 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 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)
from a medieval nickname for someone angelic or for someone who played an angel in a pageant
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Angel 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)
Angel is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
From Greek Angelos ‘messenger Note: Many Spanish names, especially girls’ names, are derived from terms used in various aspects of the cult of the Virgin Mary. This has the somewhat bizarre result that many common female names, e.g. Pilar and Rosario, have masculine grammatical gender. _ (of God)’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
, formerly also 3 Used occasionally in England as a boy’s _name from the 1400s, if not earlier, and (b. 1949). ANGHARAD ANGIE
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In English, An incorporeal and sometimes divine messenger from a deity, or other divine entity, often depicted in art as a youthful winged figure in flowing robes.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
anjo; befor 1492
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In English, from OFr angele, Lat angelus 'messenger, angel'; first attested Warinus Angelus 1193 P (K)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 136 sources across 67 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 264K | #143 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 210K | #21 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 210K | #6 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 203K | #37 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 84K | #143 |
| BG Bulgaria | NSI — most common given names (population) | 2018 | 44K | #15 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 4.8K | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 1.6K | #93 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1.1K | — |
Reference works 9
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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
- Is Angel a male or female name?
- Angel 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 does the name Angel mean, and where does it come from?
- from a medieval nickname for someone angelic or for someone who played an angel in a pageant Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Angel have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 349 thousand people named Angel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled angel.
- What are other forms of the name Angel?
- In the etymology graph, Angelo, Ange and DeAngelo are forms of the same name in other languages; Angjelko is a recorded short or pet form.
- How common is the name Angel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 348,575 people named Angel in 2020, about 1 in 954 residents.
- How common is Angel compared with other names?
- In the United States, Angel is the 196th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Angel?
- A machine transcription gives /anxɛl/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What do you want to know about Angel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/angelThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Angel” — the 196th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.