Angelou
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Maya, US writer
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: SSA, 2014
/aŋɡelou/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Angelou is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 2.5M(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 5.1M
- FRFrance≈1 in 18Mfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 54 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.5M (inferred from the name graph)
7 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Maya, US writer
Cited for this meaning 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Angelou counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 7 | 1 in 2.5M | 7 | — | — |
| FR France | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 18M | — | Angelou | 54 |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | — |
| PH Philippines | — | — | — | Angelou | 31 |
| US United States | — | — | 149 | Angelou | 21 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | — | — | Angelou | 2 |
7 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Maya Angeloub. 1928USAmerican poet, author, and civil rights activist (1928–2014)
- Athanasios Angeloub. 1951GRGreek philologist
- Vangelis Angeloub. 1962GRGreek professional basketball coach
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 7 | #27,806 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2014 | 5 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1 | #80,681 |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Angelou mean, and where does it come from?
- Maya, US writer Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- Is Angelou a male or female name?
- Angelou is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- How do you pronounce Angelou?
- In Spanish /aŋɡelou/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Angelou have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 7 people named Angelou, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Angelou most common?
- Angelou is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.5 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Angelou?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 7 people named Angelou, about 1 in 2.5 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/angelouThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Angelou”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.