First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
Last name origin & meaning:
Russian and Bulgarian: alternative spelling of Angelov, from angel ‘angel’ + the surname suffix -ov. This name and others like it were frequently assigned as religious names to intending Orthodox priests in seminaries.