Angel
2025 SSA
About Angel
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.
Pronounced AYN-jun; AHN-hel (Spanish).
As of October 2026, Angel ranked #67 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #31 in 2006, Nameberry popularity #374.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #67 | 6,313 | 3,286.5 |
| 2015 | #64 | 6,114 | 3,189.8 |
| 2016 | #70 | 5,561 | 2,930.3 |
| 2017 | #71 | 5,274 | 2,849.3 |
| 2018 | #72 | 5,064 | 2,788.3 |
| 2019 | #73 | 4,914 | 2,738.8 |
| 2020 | #76 | 4,524 | 2,621 |
| 2021 | #67 | 4,716 | 2,695.7 |
| 2022 | #62 | 5,098 | 2,919.8 |
| 2023 | #63 | 4,890 | 2,858.7 |
| 2024 | #63 | 4,964 | 2,881.2 |
| 2025 | #67 | 4,757 | 2,785 |
World rankings
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Angel on lists
Famous Angels
- 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
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"