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Angelos

#9,775 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Angelus

Angelos has been given to 277 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #9,775 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1996, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Angelos, 2025

1 in 474,000

Angelos over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Angelos: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Angelus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Angelos means

Angelos is a form of Angelus.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Angelos → Angelus. The family’s meaning is “angel”, recorded in English with the source elements ángelos.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos). Doublet of Angel.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Angelos (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Angelos is used in English.

Angelos comes through Ancient Greek ἄγγελος.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Angelus and Angel.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 277 boys were recorded with the name Angelos between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1996; its best national rank was #3,158 in 1972.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,200 in 2015 to #9,775 in 2025.

How common is Angelos?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,775
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Angelos sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Angelos. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Angeloss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Angelos was born before 1998 — so the typical Angelos is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
19.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
45.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
267
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 19.5% of all recorded uses (54).

Is Angelos rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,425
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.40×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
63.6%
Peak was 1996 (11)
Years since peak
29
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,158
1972

Spellings of Angelos

Angelos is not the most common spelling — Angel is, with 72.7% against Angelos's 0.08%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Angelos is used

Across 1910–2025, Angelos was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 888,256 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Angelos has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Angelos around the world

Where Angelos ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • France
    2005–2005
    #3,683
    in 2005
  • Canada
    2004–2022
    #2,959
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1957–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Angelos by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,775
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#3,158
1972
Peak year
1996
11 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
277
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Angelos

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Angelos

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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