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Boy · Greek
Angelo
Say it: AN-jeh-loh
Meaning
From Greek angelos 'messenger', the word for angel.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Its wave through time
Popular now
In the United States
- 81,373 babies given this name since 1881
- At its height in 1914, about 1 in 1,000 boys
- 1,044 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
- The Renaissance1400 to 1600
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
The family of the name
| Spanish | Ángel |
|---|---|
| French | Ange |
Famous bearers
- Angelo Roncalli, Pope John XXIII
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Where this comes from
- Calendars of saints and name days
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.