Angle
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 5 babies a year in the US.
Angle by the numbers
Angle was given to 5 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 52 babies in 1975, so it is a 1970s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Angle
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Angle. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Angieangel; messenger; a diminutive of Angela456 in the US (2017)
- Angelemessenger, angel; a form of Angela6 in the US (2017)
- Angelmessenger of God6,157 in the US (2017)
- Angelamessenger, angel1,344 in the US (2017)
- Anniegrace; diminutive of Anne425 in England and Wales (2025)
- Ansleyone's own meadow; a respelling of Ainsley or Aynsley362 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Angle
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