Angelo
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- (surname): Angello
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Borrowed from Italian Angelo. Doublet of Angel.
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Angelo (plural Angelos)
- A male given name from Italian.
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], page 63, column 2:
- I haue deliuerd to Lord Angelo / (A man of ſtricture and firme abſtinence) / My abſolute power, and place here in Vienna,
- 1897, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “[Pudd’nhead Wilson] Chapter V”, in The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson: And the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 74:
- Luigi — Angelo. They're lovely names; and so grand and foreign — not like Jones and Robinson and such.
- A surname from Italian.
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male given name
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- According to the 2010 United States Census, Angelo is the 4590th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 7728 individuals. Angelo is most common among White (85.42%) individuals.
Further reading edit
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Angelo”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 41.
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Angelo
- a male given name from Italian Angelo
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Angelo m
- a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Angel
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Angelo m or f by sense
- a surname transferred from the given name
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Angelō