Angelo
Angelo is a boy name of Italian origin, meaning Angel; a messenger.
What Angelo means
Angel; a messenger.
Angelo sits at 6 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Angelo comes from
Italian names preserve Latin forms more directly than most European languages, often keeping the original vowel endings that other languages dropped.
Angelo is recorded as Italian in origin. Browse other Italian names.
How popular is Angelo?
Angelo is not in the current top 100 boy names we track. In practice that means a child called Angelo is unlikely to be one of three in a classroom — the name is established and recognisable, just not in heavy circulation right now.
The character of Angelo
We group Angelo under faith and the stars and sky — an unusual pairing, and often the reason a name feels the way it does. Each theme opens a full list of names sharing it.
Names like Angelo
These share Angelo's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Krishna — Dark; the divine one.
- Celeste — Heavenly.
- Gennaro — Devoted; of January.
- Giovanni — God is gracious.
- Salvatore — Saviour.
- Donatella — Given by God.
- Raffaella — God has healed.
- Abraham — Father of multitudes.
- Abram — Exalted father.
- Adil — Just and fair.
- Aditya — The sun.
- Amadeus — Lover of God.