Angel

At the 2020 census, 23,588 Americans bore the surname Angel — 1,475th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 12,700.

By the numbers

People: 23,588
Rank: 1,475th
How common: 1 in 12,700
Per 100,000: 7.9

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Angel described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 52.8%
White, not Hispanic 39.8%
Black, not Hispanic 2.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Angel

Criss Angel (born 1967)American illusionist
Asher Angel (born 2002)American actor
Joanna Angel (born 1980)American pornographic actress and director
Juan Pablo Ángel (born 1975)Colombian footballer
Vanessa Angel (born 1966)English actress, model
Jack Angel (1930–2021)American voice actor
Buck Angel (born 1962)American FtM pornographic actor
James Crawford Angel (1899–1956)American aviator

People named Angel with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Angel

Also a first name

Angel has been given to 366,174 American babies as a first name since 1888, peaking in 2006. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.