Angelus
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Angelus is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Latin 'angel'; mentioned as resembling the tribal name Angeln.
- USUnited States1 in 772K(measured from records)
- TZTanzania≈1 in 27K
- NANamibia≈1 in 72K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 143 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Latin 'angel'; mentioned as resembling the tribal name Angeln
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Angelus 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Angelus | 12 |
| PH Philippines | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 237K | — | Angelus | 26 |
| US United States | 431 | 1 in 772K | 327 | Angelus | 143 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 263K | listed | — | 2 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 898K | — | Angelus | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | 165 | 1 in 105K | 165 | Angelus | 5 |
| NA Namibia | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 72K | 1 | — | 3 |
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; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates. 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)
Angelus 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.
In English, Catherine d', French hostess
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Angennes [Rambouillet]
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, prayer
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In German, männl. Vom., lateinische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Lithuanian, accusative plural of angelas
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Angelus Rumplerb. 1460DEGerman religious figure (1460–1513)
- Angelus Silesiusb. 1624PLGerman writer
- Angelus de Baetsb. 1793BEBelgian artist (1793-1855)
- Angelus August Eugeen Angillisb. 1830BEBelgian notary, archivist and publisher
- Angelus Sturmb. 1886DEGerman theologian (1886-1968)
- Angelus Kupferb. 1900DEGerman theologian (1900–1951)
- Golo Mannb. 1909DEnot in their usual nameGerman-Swiss historian (1909-1994)
- Angelus Waldsteinb. 1931DEGerman theologian (1931–2023)
- Angelus Eisingerb. 1964CHSwiss historian
- Juan Angel de SumaranATnot in their usual namelanguage teacher and translator
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 37 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 243 | #83,373 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 205 | #84,968 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 186 | #97,671 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Angelus mean, and where does it come from?
- Latin 'angel'; mentioned as resembling the tribal name Angeln Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- What are other forms of the name Angelus?
- In the etymology graph, Angel, Angelo and Ange are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Angelus a male or female name?
- Angelus 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.
- In which country does Angelus have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Angelus in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled angelus.
- How common is the name Angelus?
- In the United States, the national register counted 431 people named Angelus in 2020, about 1 in 772 thousand residents.
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curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/angelusThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Angelus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.