Given name & surname
Angelos
“angel”
Angelos is a unisex given name from Ancient Greek.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Angelos is a romanization of Άγγελος. Άγγελος goes back to a word meaning “angel.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1915. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Angelos through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 277
- 277 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1996
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #9,779 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 9,779 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 11 in 1996. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 491 as a first name in 2020; 887 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Angelos’s family of names
In English usage, Angelos shares an earlier linguistic root with Angel. In Greek usage, Angelos as a surname is a transliteration of Άγγελος. In German usage, Angelos has a related form in Angel.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Angelos has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
2 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 8
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Angelos
- Angelos CharisteasGreek footballerborn 1980
- Angelos BasinasGreek executive and retired association football playerborn 1976
- Angelos SikelianosGreek poet and writer (1884–1951)
- Angelos VlachopoulosGreek water polo playerborn 1991
- Angelos AnastasiadisGreek football manager and playerborn 1953
- Angelos FetsisGreek athletics competitor1878
- Angelos PavlakakisGreek sprinterborn 1976
- Angelos ChantiGreek footballerborn 1989
- Evangelos KoroniosGreek basketball player (born 1969)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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