Angeli
Feminine · “angels”
Angeli is the Latin and Italian plural of angel — angels, rather than one — and it is used as a given name chiefly in the Philippines and among Filipino families abroad.
How old is the name Angeli?
Angeli first appears in US birth records in 1953 — 72 years ago. The typical Angeli alive today was born around 2008, making them about 17 years old. About 1,600 people named Angeli are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Angeli most popular?
Angeli peaked in 2024, reaching #2559 nationally. Today it ranks #3389, 830 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
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Where it comes from
From angelos to Angeli
The story of Angeli
Angelos was an ordinary Greek word for a messenger before it was a theological term, and the whole family of European angel names descends from that borrowing — Angela, Angelo, Ángel, Angelina. The Philippines, with a long Spanish Catholic history and a strong tradition of Marian and devotional naming, uses Angeli as a women's name in its own right, and it reaches American records with Filipino families.
Meaning
angels; messengers
From Greek angelos, a messenger, which the Greek translators of the Hebrew Bible used for the divine messengers and which passed into Latin as angelus; Angeli is its plural.
How the name formed
- angelos
- angelus
- Angeli
Related forms: Angeli · Ángeles · Angela
Pronouncing Angeli
AN-jeh-lee
Three syllables, first stressed. Italian says an-JEH-lee, with the stress in the middle.
Nicknames for Angeli
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1953
- Most girls named
- 202469 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2559reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −34.8%45 in 2025, from 69
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Angeli in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Angeli in Italian — same name
- Ángeles in Spanish — related form
- Angela in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Angelis among us
people named Angeli are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 35,717 born in 2025 was named Angeli
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Angeli
- #3389
- Angeli on the 2025 chart
- #796
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Angeli went to 45 girls in 2025, but Angely, Angelly and Angelli are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 164, which makes it the 796th most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,593 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 9,800 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 35,717 for Angeli itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Alexas test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Angeli's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Alexas climbed just as high around 1996, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Alexas's path sketches the road Angeli is walking now.
Angeli sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Angeli is headed
Angeli looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 49% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Angeli beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Angeli in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning that needs no research to explain.
- Angie is a warm short form already familiar to every English speaker.
- Strongly established in the Philippines, which gives it a real community.
- Angela and Angel are both far better known and will be assumed.
- In Italian and Latin the form is a plural, which reads oddly to those who know it.
- Angeli, Angelie and Angely all appear and none is dominant.
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Frequently asked
- How many Angelis are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,600 people named Angeli are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Angeli?
- Angeli is one of 4 recorded spellings. Angely is the more common one — 90 births in 2025 against 45 for Angeli.
- How popular is the name Angeli in 2025?
- Angeli ranks #3389 among US girl names in 2025, with 45 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Angeli?
- About 1 in every 35,717 US girls born in 2025 was named Angeli — 45 in all.
- Will my child share the name Angeli with classmates?
- Angeli will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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