Angle
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Frequency: (1999)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. English and Irish (of Norman origin): topographic name from Middle English and Old French angle ‘angle’, ‘corner’ (Latin angulus). As an Irish surname, it can also be habitational, from a place in Pembrokeshire, South Wales, named with this word.
2. Americanized spelling of German Angel or Engel.
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