Angel

AYN-jel (Eng); AN-hel (Sp)

Spanish and English

"angel, messenger"

Angel Origin and Meaning

The name Angel is a boy's name meaning "angel, messenger".

As a boys' name, Angel has two distinct name personalities. One is as a perennial favorite Hispanic boys’ name, popular in the US along with Spain, Mexico, and South America.

Then Buffy the Vampire Slayer brought Angel into the Anglo camp, where it's now heard more frequently, pronounced the English way. Angel entered the boys' Top 100 in 1997 and remains solidly there today.

Angel's popularity for girls began to wane at the same time the name took off for boys. Any child named Angel, of whatever gender or nationality, has a, well, angelic image to live up to or live down.

Other notable male Angels: the husband in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, a character on Dexter, and several athletes.

Angel Rank in US Top 1000

# 63 in the US

Angel Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 748 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Angel

• 63 US 2023
• 748 Nameberry 2025
• 7 Unisex 2023
• 33 Spain 2023
• 14 Mexico 2021
• 45 Chile 2021

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Famous People Named Angel

• Ángel Cabrera Argentine golfer
• Angel D'Meza Cuban baseball player
• Angel Di Maria Argentine footballer
• Ernst Angel Australian poet and psychologist
• Angel Rubio American NFL football player
• Ángel Domingo López (Ruano) Spanish footballer
• Ángel Valodia Matos (Fuentes) Cuban taekwondo athlete
• Ángel Manuel Pagán Puerto Rican baseball player
• (Luis) Ángel Cereceda Parra Chilean singer,songwriter
• Angel Medina American pro wrestler
• Angel Boi American rapper
• Angel Jesus Smith Salgueiro, son of celebrity chef Art Smith
• Ashley Parker Angel American singer of boy band O,Town

The name Angel in Pop Culture

• Angel character in TV's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and spin,off "Angel"
• Angel Batista character on TV's "Dexter"
• Angel Castillo de Valle character in telenovela "Destinos"
• Angel Clare character in "Tess of the d'Urbervilles"
• Angel Bunny Fluttershy's pet bunny in the series "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic"
• Angel Allegria character in the book "The Killer's Tears"
• Angel aka Warren Worthington III character in the X,Men series
• Angel Ruiz character in Barbara Kingsolver's book "The Bean Trees"
• Angel Aristotle Mendoza "Aristotle/Ari " character in the Young Adult book, "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe," by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
• Angel Dumott Schunard character from RENT
• Angel Dust character in the animated series "Hazbin Hotel"

International Variations of the name Angel

• Aingeal Irish Gaelic
• Aniol Polish
• Angaros Persian
• Angelov Eastern European
• Ange French
• Ángel Spanish
• Anshel Yiddish
• Anzhel Eastern European
• Angelo Italian