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Anghel

Boys' name

From Greek Άγγελος; literal meaning unconfirmed

Anghel has been given to 6 babies in the U.S. since 2003. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2003, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Anghel, 2003

1 in 634,000

Anghel 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anghel: meaning, origin, and history

From Greek Άγγελος; literal meaning unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Anghel means

Anghel is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Anghel is used in Romanian.

Anghel comes through Greek Άγγελος.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Anghel between 2003 and 2003. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2003; its best national rank was #9,633 in 2003.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Anghel?

Anghel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2003, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2003
1 in 634,000
6 of 3,801,425 births
Among boys only
1 in 329,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2003
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
439,159 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anghel 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 2003 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 439,159 children born in 2003 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anghel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anghels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anghel was born before 2003 — so the typical Anghel is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6
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2000s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Anghel 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2003 (6)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#9,633
2003

Spellings of Anghel

Anghel is not the most common spelling — Angel is, with 73.7% against Anghel's <0.01%.

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.

Anghel around the world

Where Anghel 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
    2023–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023
  • France
    2021–2021
    #6,342
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    2001–2001
    #581
    in 2001

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

Anghel by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#9,633
2003
Peak year
2003
6 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2003
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Anghel

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

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Sibling names for Anghel

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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