Given name & surname
Aniello
“lamb”
Aniello is a masculine given name. It is used in Italian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Aniello is a form of Agnello. Agnello goes back to a word meaning “lamb.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1910. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Aniello through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 587
- 587 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1916
- 22 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 22 in 1916. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 509 as a first name in 2020; 246 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.
Aniello’s family of names
In Italian usage, Aniello has a diminutive in NELLO. Aniello has a feminine form in Aniella. In Italian usage, Aniello has a related form in AGNELLO.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
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 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Aniello
- Aniello FalconeItalian Baroque painter (1607–1656)
- Aniello DellacroceAmerican mobster (1914–1985)
- Aniello CutoloItalian footballerborn 1983
- Aniello DesiderioItalian musicianborn 1971
- Aniello CalifanoItalian poet (1870–1919)
- Aniello SalzanoItalian association football player (1991)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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