Angle Surname
Approximately 15,772 people bear this surname
Angle Surname Definition:
This surname is derived from the name of an ancestor. 'the son of Angel'; in later days Angela and Angelina. For the full history of this once-popular name, v. Yonge. The Puritans could not oust this name, though bitterly hated by them.
1645.
Read More About This SurnameAngle Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 7,494 | 1:48,367 | 5,863 |
| Egypt | 2,990 | 1:30,748 | 3,327 |
| Myanmar | 1,983 | 1:26,192 | 466 |
| India | 650 | 1:1,180,101 | 47,584 |
| Saudi Arabia | 557 | 1:55,396 | 7,891 |
| Bangladesh | 541 | 1:294,560 | 8,696 |
| Ghana | 485 | 1:55,713 | 5,980 |
| Canada | 278 | 1:132,538 | 13,752 |
| England | 120 | 1:464,317 | 30,397 |
| Ivory Coast | 84 | 1:274,658 | 10,624 |
| Nigeria | 70 | 1:2,530,611 | 83,100 |
| China | 54 | 1:25,320,770 | 1,385 |
| South Africa | 38 | 1:1,425,729 | 75,291 |
| Finland | 32 | 1:171,772 | 15,201 |
| Mexico | 32 | 1:3,878,944 | 25,867 |
| Pakistan | 30 | 1:5,954,796 | 35,971 |
| Thailand | 21 | 1:3,363,731 | 310,277 |
| Papua New Guinea | 18 | 1:452,984 | 57,838 |
| Sudan | 16 | 1:2,344,387 | 4,438 |
| Iraq | 16 | 1:2,188,853 | 19,343 |
| Australia | 14 | 1:1,928,264 | 88,951 |
| New Zealand | 13 | 1:348,333 | 27,379 |
| Singapore | 13 | 1:423,669 | 18,211 |
| France | 13 | 1:5,109,440 | 259,941 |
| Philippines | 13 | 1:7,787,556 | 197,164 |
| Malaysia | 11 | 1:2,681,293 | 102,971 |
| Russia | 11 | 1:13,102,096 | 377,010 |
| Sri Lanka | 9 | 1:2,312,062 | 9,186 |
| Syria | 9 | 1:2,144,558 | 9,551 |
| Vietnam | 9 | 1:10,294,006 | 2,767 |
| United Arab Emirates | 8 | 1:1,145,284 | 40,289 |
| Sweden | 8 | 1:1,230,845 | 90,587 |
| Argentina | 8 | 1:5,342,927 | 168,491 |
| Wales | 8 | 1:386,816 | 19,671 |
| Iran | 7 | 1:10,968,932 | 186,522 |
| Indonesia | 7 | 1:18,892,742 | 520,071 |
| Niger | 6 | 1:3,198,670 | 54,540 |
| Algeria | 6 | 1:6,438,592 | 53,709 |
| Qatar | 6 | 1:393,000 | 55,922 |
| Hong Kong | 5 | 1:1,467,097 | 5,611 |
| Oman | 4 | 1:921,993 | 7,313 |
| Germany | 4 | 1:20,126,365 | 436,245 |
| Morocco | 4 | 1:8,619,025 | 73,251 |
| Lebanon | 3 | 1:1,879,028 | 22,073 |
| Afghanistan | 3 | 1:10,717,728 | 35,605 |
| Ireland | 3 | 1:1,569,646 | 17,286 |
| Kenya | 3 | 1:15,393,300 | 77,493 |
| Cameroon | 3 | 1:6,923,023 | 143,724 |
| Senegal | 2 | 1:7,289,671 | 8,117 |
| Albania | 2 | 1:1,457,028 | 24,967 |
| Yemen | 2 | 1:13,212,647 | 40,633 |
| Belarus | 2 | 1:4,750,530 | 139,516 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| Turkey | 2 | 1:38,910,711 | 171,901 |
| Taiwan | 2 | 1:11,722,373 | 63,559 |
| Scotland | 2 | 1:2,676,908 | 51,579 |
| Iceland | 2 | 1:190,045 | 6,825 |
| Panama | 2 | 1:1,956,129 | 15,285 |
| Italy | 2 | 1:30,578,344 | 160,757 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Cambodia | 1 | 1:15,487,146 | 14,824 |
| Jordan | 1 | 1:8,842,437 | 26,010 |
| Nicaragua | 1 | 1:6,021,090 | 8,768 |
| Bhutan | 1 | 1:616,039 | 1,715 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Central African Republic | 1 | 1:4,515,390 | 1,196 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Barbados | 1 | 1:287,448 | 2,772 |
| Azerbaijan | 1 | 1:9,649,122 | 47,873 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Maldives | 1 | 1:404,172 | 7,269 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
| Cuba | 1 | 1:11,522,716 | 17,380 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| North Macedonia | 1 | 1:2,101,472 | 31,546 |
| Jamaica | 1 | 1:2,869,947 | 13,896 |
| French Polynesia | 1 | 1:280,805 | 7,211 |
| Georgia | 1 | 1:3,745,545 | 47,852 |
| Guyana | 1 | 1:762,221 | 14,420 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | 1:3,550,139 | 9,109 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 3 | 1:1,476,622 | 29,385 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 175 | 1:139,288 | 12,604 |
| Wales | 14 | 1:112,030 | 4,740 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1,568 | 1:32,027 | 3,849 |
The alternate forms: Anglé (12) & Ángle (2) are calculated separately.
Angle (5,291) may also be a first name.
Angle Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
This surname is derived from the name of an ancestor. 'the son of Angel'; in later days Angela and Angelina. For the full history of this once-popular name, v. Yonge. The Puritans could not oust this name, though bitterly hated by them.
1645. Buried — Angela Boyce: Canterbury Cathedral.
1682. Baptised — Angel, d. Sir Nicholas Butler, Knt.: St. Helen's, Bishopgate.
'Weymouth, March 20, 1625. Embarked for New England, Angell Holland, aged 21 years': Hotten's Emigrants.
(a) Local, 'at the Angle'; v. Angle. Most probably the source of the majority of our Angels and Angells. The font-name was unknown in England, so far as I can discover, in the 13th and 14th centuries.
Robert Angel, 7 James I, Norfolk: History of Norfolk.
1578. Michael Angell, Gloucestershire: Register of the University of Oxford.
1618-9. John Angell and Anne Palmer: Marriage Lic. (London).
1667. Robert Mellish and Frances Angell: Marriage Alleg. (Canterbury).
1751. Married — James Angel and Ann Lownds: St. George, Hanover Square.
This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'in the Angle,' i.e. nook, corner; from residence in some nook or corner of the road.
'Go, run, search, pry in every nook and angle of the kitchens, larders, and pastries': The Woman Hater; v. Nangle, and compare Heme and Wray.
Henry in the Angle, Close Rolls, 8 Edward I.
Alice in Angulo, Oxfordshire, 1273. Hundred Rolls.
Roger in Angulo, Cambridgeshire, ibid.
The English portion of the Angels and Angells in the London Directory are probably from this source; v. Angel.
Elias Angel, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.
1570. Married — Danyell Angell. son of Mr. Angell: St. Dionis Backchurch.
1722. Married — John Angil and Elizabeth Beale: St. Antholin (London).
1744. Baptised — Thomas, son of George Angle: St. Michael, Cornhill.
This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'atten angle,' i.e. at the angle, the bend or corner; v. Angle. In this case, as in Nale and Nail, the initial is borrowed from the prefix. The name is Latinized into 'de angulo,' or 'in angulo,' in the Hundred Rolls; compare Nash, Nelmes, &c.
John de Angulo, Norfolk, 1273. Hundred Rolls.
Symon in Angulo, Lincolnshire, ibid.
1571. Peter Nangle (Dublin): Register of the University of Oxford.
(Anglo-French-Latin) 1 Dweller at a Corner. [Middle English, French angle, Latin angul-us].
Henry in the Angle, A.D. 1280.— Close Rolls.
2 confused with Angel, q.v.
(English) Dweller at, or near, the angle or corner.
The Anglo-Norman family of De Angulo, or In Angulo (whence perhaps the English Corner), took their name from their barony of Angle, situated in a nook or angle, closo to Milford Haven, and their residence there was called Nangle's Castle. Gilbert de Angulo, who accompanied Strongbow to the Conquest of Ireland in 1172, was the progenitor of the Irish Nanglos.
(Greek.) Prom άγγελος, a, messenger; also the name of a town in Prance where the family may have originated.
A location name in South Wales.
Angle: a corner. Atten-Angle has given us Nangle. John de Angulo, 1273 (Hundred Rolls).
Angle Demographics
Average Angle Salary in
United States
$43,539 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Angle Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Angle Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Angle (Arabic: نغل, Marathi: आंगले, Russian: Англе) occurs in The United States more than any other country/territory. It can also occur as a variant: Anglé or Ángle. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Angle? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 33,665th most common last name internationally, borne by around 1 in 462,056 people. This surname occurs mostly in The Americas, where 49 percent of Angle live; 49 percent live in North America and 49 percent live in Anglo-North America. Angle is also the 92,869th most commonly occurring first name world-wide, borne by 5,291 people.
It is most commonly occurring in The United States, where it is carried by 7,494 people, or 1 in 48,367. In The United States it is mostly concentrated in: California, where 9 percent live, Ohio, where 8 percent live and Virginia, where 7 percent live. Besides The United States Angle is found in 88 countries. It also occurs in Egypt, where 19 percent live and Myanmar, where 13 percent live.
Angle Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Angle has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Angle surname rose 478 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it declined 31 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Wales it declined 43 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Angle Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those bearing the last name is primarily Catholic (100%) in Ireland.
In The United States those bearing the Angle last name are 22.87% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 69.64% being registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Angle earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 58.8% less than the national average, earning R 97,896 per year; in United States they earn 0.9% more than the national average, earning $43,539 USD per year and in Canada they earn 0.87% more than the national average, earning $50,115 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Angle Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Angle in the Marathi language | ||
| आंगले | angale | 78.95 |
| आंगलेाकर | angaleakara | 10.53 |
| अंगाले | angale | 10.53 |
| Angle in the Russian language | ||
| Англе | angle | - |
| Angle in the Arabic language | ||
| نغل | nghl | - |
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Footnotes
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