Angelus
- Gender
- Boy
- Origin
- Greek
- US rank, 2025
- #8,239 for boys
Angelus is a boys' name of Greek origin, meaning “angel”. In 2025 it ranked 8,239th for boys in the US (9 babies).
What does Angelus mean?
Greek
“angel”
A male given name from Ancient Greek, of rare usage, variant of Angelo.
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Angelus a girl's or a boy's name?
Angelus is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Angelus in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,239th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 190,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 9 boys in the US were named Angelus, making it the 8,239th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,497th. Its busiest year was 2003, with 31 boys. It first appears in the records in 1999.
Half of all the boys named Angelus in the US since 1880 were born between 2003 and 2014, the years shaded on the chart below.
Angelus in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,239 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 10 | #7,733 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,293 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,497 |
| 2019 | 5 | #12,138 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,150 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,091 |
| 2016 | 8 | #8,811 |
| 2015 | 13 | #6,320 |
| 2014 | 14 | #5,993 |
| 2013 | 16 | #5,400 |
| 2012 | 13 | #6,300 |
| 2011 | 15 | #5,670 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,081 |
| 2009 | 25 | #4,033 |
| 2008 | 15 | #5,762 |
| 2007 | 21 | #4,491 |
| 2006 | 22 | #4,219 |
| 2005 | 22 | #4,057 |
| 2004 | 16 | #5,002 |
| 2003 | 31 | #3,040 |
| 2002 | 29 | #3,091 |
| 2001 | 20 | #3,968 |
| 2000 | 15 | #4,779 |
| 1999 | 5 | #9,905 |
Names like Angelus
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ares, Luca, Maximus, Juancarlos, Marquez, Thiago, Xander, Azriel, Alessandro, Exodus, Pierce, Atticus
Names related to Angelus
More Greek names
Theodore, Sophia, George, Theo, Lucas, Sofia, Alexander, Sebastian, Penelope, Phoebe, Margot, Luke, Chloe, Sophie, Zoe, Iris
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Angelus: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/angelus, updated 20 October 2026.