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Dangelo

#1,154 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Dangelo has been given to 9,405 babies in the U.S. since 1963. In 2025 it ranked #1,154 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1996, with 604 recorded.

Babies named Dangelo, 2025

1 in 18,200

Dangelo over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dangelo: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dangelo means

Dangelo is a given name.

The naming story behind Dangelo

Wikidata records Dangelo as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q117314509, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,405 boys were recorded with the name Dangelo between 1963 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 604 in 1996; its best national rank was #391 in 1996.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #954 in 2020 to #1,154 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #985 in 2015 to #1,154 in 2025.

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.

How common is Dangelo?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 18,200
182 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 9,380
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,154
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
12,627 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dangelo 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 12,627 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dangelo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dangelos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dangelo was born before 2004 — so the typical Dangelo is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
26.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
59.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
9,405
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 26.3% of all recorded uses (2,474).

Is Dangelo 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
−187
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−200
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−169
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.87×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
30.1%
Peak was 1996 (604)
Years since peak
29
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
7.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#391
1996

Spellings of Dangelo

Dangelo is not the most common spelling — Daniel is, with 83.7% against Dangelo's 0.40%.

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 Dangelo is used

Across 2016–2025, Dangelo was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 3,448 boys, against 1 in 7,414 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in 50,000).

229 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 3,448
  2. 2Florida1 in 3,704
  3. 3Nevada1 in 3,704
  4. 4Maryland1 in 5,000
  5. 5Arizona1 in 5,263
  6. 6Texas1 in 5,882
  7. 7California1 in 6,250
  8. 8Ohio1 in 6,667

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.

Dangelo around the world

Where Dangelo 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
    1997–2022
    #3,450
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1997–2022
    #2,959
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    2012–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Dangelo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,154
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 200
Best rank ever
#391
1996
Peak year
1996
604 that year
First recorded
1963
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,405
Count in 2025
182

Names similar to Dangelo

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

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Names with a curve like Dangelo

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Dangelo, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Dangelo

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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