Entry № 652 · English origin

Angel Angel — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AYN-jel /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Messenger of God (Angel Reese, WNBA double-double record)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "messenger of god (angel reese, wnba double-double record)".

Angel is from the Greek angelos (messenger) — a 19th-century English shortening of Angela / Angelica. Used as both masculine and feminine; in the United States the feminine usage is more common in English, the masculine more common in Spanish. NCAA national champion at LSU (2023). Angel Olsen (born 1987) — American singer-songwriter. Angel Haze — American rapper. Angel is also the Buffy the Vampire Slayer character Angelus (male).

Messenger of God.

The name in its native script.

Angel
Transliteration
Angel
Pronunciation
/ ˈeɪn.dʒəl /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Angel stands.

Angel does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Angels before her.

Real people
Angel Reese
American basketball player.
born 2002
Angel Olsen
American singer-songwriter.
born 1987
In fiction
Angel Clare
Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
1891

Names connected to Angel.

The number behind Angel.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Angel reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.