Angel
Given to both boys and girls in Poland, though it leans clearly male: of the few hundred people who carry it, most are men. The name comes from Greek and means messenger, or angel.
Angel Pronunciation
Angel is pronounced AHN-gel (/ˈangɛl/).
What Angel means
Where Angel comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Angel comes from Greek. The word behind it is angelos, meaning a messenger, and early Christian writers used it for the figures who brought word from God. English and Spanish both took the name and kept that sense: messenger of God.
In Spanish the form Ángel has long belonged to men, a saint's name and a common one. English speakers have given it more freely across gender lines, so a Polish class register that lists an Angel today points to that wider, English-facing use rather than any older Slavic root.
The meaning stays close to its source. A messenger is one who is sent, and angelos named that role long before it named any child. Angel keeps the sense of messenger of God.
How many people are named Angel
1 in 59460 men in Poland is named Angel. 434 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1420 among male names.
Angel's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Angel as a middle name
Angel is a first name for 434 men in Poland and a middle name for another 505, a 46/54 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 317th, between Lucas (520) and Heronim (502).
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#315 Baltazar522
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#316 Lucas520
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#317 Angel505
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#318 Heronim502
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#319 Otto499