Anghel

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Anghel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country, where it is the 18th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos). Doublet of înger.

rarermore common
  • RORomania≈1 in 761(inferred from the name graph)
  • MDMoldova≈1 in 7.8K
  • ESSpain1 in 32K

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.

Romania (inferred from the name graph)

≈28,000 people, est.

Sources
130 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 761 (inferred from the name graph)

Romania, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos). Doublet of înger.

Sources 1

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Anghel 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.

Where Anghel is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RO Romania#18≈28,000 est.≈1 in 761—Anghel114
IT Italy—≈1,600 est.≈1 in 38K—Anghel35
ES Spain—1,5691 in 32K1.6KAnghel59
FR France—≈490 est.≈1 in 140K19—1
MD Moldova#258≈430 est.≈1 in 7.8K45Anghel22
DK Denmark—981 in 60K98——

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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); e-services.md — living population register; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Anghel is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Romania, United States

  • Polish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, Poland, United Kingdom

    Also written Ànghel

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ánghel

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, United States, United Kingdom, Spain

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Ånghel

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Anghel 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.

  • In Filipino, angel (messenger from a deity)

    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)

16001700180019002000Atanasie Anghel, b. 1660Dimitrie Anghel, b. 1872Ion Anghel, b. 1928Sergiu Anghel, b. 1954Luminița Anghel, b. 1968Monica Anghel, b. 1971Cătălin Anghel, b. 1974Andrei Anghel, b. 1989Alexandra Anghel, b. 1997Roxana-Iuliana Anghel, b. 1998

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 36 sources across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Anghel
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.6K#2,981
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.6K#2,979
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—98#5,536
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199119—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19814—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19414—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19213—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19612—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19112—

Reference works 4

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 Anghel mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos). Doublet of înger. Recorded by Wiktionary.
What are other forms of the name Anghel?
In the etymology graph, Engel, Giotto and Anděl are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Anghel have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 28 thousand people named Anghel in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled anghel.
How common is the name Anghel?
In Spain, the national register counted 1,569 people named Anghel, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.
How common is Anghel compared with other names?
In Romania, Anghel is the 18th most common surname of 78,699 surnames 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, “Anghel” — the 18th most common surname in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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