Dangelo
Masculine · “of the angel”
Dangelo is an Italian family name that crossed the Atlantic, lost its apostrophe, and settled in as a first name. Behind it stands Angelo, and behind Angelo the Greek word for a messenger — one of the oldest strands in European naming. It moves in three easy beats, dan-JEL-oh, with the soft Italian g at its center.
How old is the name Dangelo?
Dangelo first appears in US birth records in 1963 — 62 years ago. The typical Dangelo alive today was born around 2004, making them about 21 years old. About 9,200 people named Dangelo are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Dangelo most popular?
Dangelo peaked in 1996, reaching #390 nationally. Today it ranks #1154, 764 places below that high. See the whole 1996 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Angelos to Dangelo
The story of Dangelo
Angelo has been a common Italian given name since the Middle Ages, and Italian families who took the father's name as a surname produced D'Angelo — still one of the more widespread surnames in southern Italy. Italian emigration carried it to the United States in large numbers around the turn of the twentieth century, and American records flattened the apostrophe into a single word. Written that way, Dangelo also falls neatly into the family of American given names built on a Da- or De- opening — Deandre, Deshawn, Damarcus — which is part of why it reads as a first name here rather than only a last one. Its American life as a given name belongs to the second half of the twentieth century.
Meaning
of the angel; son of Angelo
The Italian surname D'Angelo is a patronymic: literally "of Angelo." The personal name Angelo comes from Latin angelus, itself from Greek angelos, "messenger."
How the name formed
- Angelos
- Angelus
- Angelo
- D'Angelo
- Dangelo
Related forms: D'Angelo · Angelo · Angelos · Ángel · Ângelo · Ange
Pronouncing Dangelo
dan-JEL-oh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle and a soft g, as in Angelo. Some families say DAN-jel-oh with the stress up front; both are heard in the US.
Nicknames for Dangelo
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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
- 1963
- Most boys named
- 1996604 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #390reached in 1996
- Change vs 2024
- −22.2%182 in 2025, from 234
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.
Dangelo in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- D'Angelo in Italian — spelling variant
- Angelo in Italian — related form
- Angelos in Greek — related form
- Ángel in Spanish — related form
- Ângelo in Portuguese — related form
- Ange in French — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Dangelos among us
people named Dangelo are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 9,385 born in 2025 was named Dangelo
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Hershel test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Dangelo's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Hershel climbed just as high around 1932, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Hershel's path sketches the road Dangelo is walking now.
Dangelo 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 Dangelo is headed
Dangelo should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
High 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.
Dangelo beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Dangelo in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is transparent and easy to explain: "of the angel," from the Greek word for messenger.
- Rests on a real Italian surname with centuries of continuous record, so the spelling is not improvised.
- Short forms are already in circulation — D, Dan, Angelo — including one that works as a full name.
- Its parts are familiar in English, Italian and Spanish, so it travels without being reshaped.
- The apostrophe will follow it around. Expect forms, teachers and email systems to render it D'Angelo or DAngelo, and expect to correct that more than once.
- It is still read as a surname by many people, so a first introduction sometimes needs a beat of clarification.
- The soft g is not automatic for everyone; some readers will try a hard g on first sight.
- A child with this name is unlikely to meet another one at school — good if you want distinctiveness, worth knowing if you would rather they never explain their name.
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Frequently asked
- How many Dangelos are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 9,200 people named Dangelo are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Dangelo in 2025?
- Dangelo ranks #1154 among US boy names in 2025, with 182 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Dangelo?
- About 1 in every 9,385 US boys born in 2025 was named Dangelo — 182 in all.
- Will my child share the name Dangelo with classmates?
- Dangelo will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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