Given name & surname

Anghel

Anghel is a masculine given name from Greek. It is used in Romanian.

Original GreekΆγγελος

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Anghel comes from Greek.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Greek Άγγελος.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2003. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Anghel through the years

Babies since 1880
6
6 boys · 0 girls
Most popular year
2003
6 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
012342025Highest share 20030.0
Anghel in U.S. Social Security birth records, 2003–2025, per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2003. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 321 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.

Anghel’s family of names

In Romanian usage, Anghel shares an earlier linguistic root with înger. In Romanian usage, Anghel has a conventional equivalent in the English form Angelo. In Romanian usage, Anghel was borrowed from the Greek form Άγγελος.

Walk Anghel’s family in the name graph

AnghelAngelAngeloΆγγελοςînger

The ring: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Around the world

Anghel has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.

Ancient Greek

3 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.

Each dot marks where a language is rooted, not where people with the name live today. Bigger dots hold more names. Language locations from Glottolog (CC BY 4.0); map from Natural Earth.

Across languages 4

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

People named Anghel

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

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Sibling ideas

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