Angel

What Angel means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Angel yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #67 vs #1,307 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Angel?

US: Steady: #64 in 2015, #67 now. England & Wales: Rising: up from #1902 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2006, when 11,602 boys got the name (#31 that year). First in the US records in 1888.

How common

• About 1 in 359 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 12,949 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NM (6.92 per 1,000 boys), NV (6.46 per 1,000 boys), AZ (5.9 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Angel is #67 in the US and #1307 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 89.6% of US babies named Angel were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Anjel9 US
• Engel7 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Angel

Boys

• Diego#158Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #158 vs #444 in 2025
• Gabriel#37Finnish, meaning “God is my strong man, God is my hero”^*
• Damien#352Form of Damian, meaning “to tame”^*
• Xavier#108Editor’s note Down from #90 in 2015 to #108 in 2025 in the US
• Adrian#74“from the Roman harbor Hadria”^*
• Fabian#468“belonging to Fabius”^*

For a sister

• Trinity#428Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #129 in 2015, #428 in 2025
• Heaven#543Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #543 vs #1,133 in 2025
• Chloe#23“young green shoot”^*
• Grace#38From the word “grace”^*
• Gabriella#105Editor’s note Down from #54 in 2015 to #105 in 2025 in the US
• Mya#443Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #146 in 2015, #443 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under English, Greek, Latin, Spanish & Italian, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Angel’s. Rank is US 2025.