Deangelo

Where Deangelo comes from

Borrowed from Italian De Angelo.
— Wiktionary's entry for Deangelo
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1960
    First appearance
    #3,337 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1989
    Peak, #453
    429 babies named Deangelo — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2001
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #880.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
  • A male given name originating as a coinage, of 1990s African-American usage.
Namesakes

No widely known Deangelo turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.