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Makes me think of Angel Clare from Tess of the D'Urbervilles or a charming and gorgeous Hispanic hunk. I've learned to tolerate it a bit more recently but it's still incredibly feminine sounding to me as I've had two close friends who both have mothers named Angelica "Angel".
Angelo is nice and would probably work better for a little boy or grown man. An Angelo who is called Angel by his close family would be cute.

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I think it would work just fine for a boy. I actually much prefer it on a boy.

Angel, pronounced AYN-jul, is definitely a female name, and it tends to be seen as a fairly low-rent kind of name at that.

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Angel, pronounced Ahn-JELL, is a boy's name, popular with Hispanics.

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I don't think Angel pronounced the first way is going to work for a boy. It sounds like the parents are stuck on that Buffy The Vampire Slayer stuff.

Only with the Spanish pronunciation, in my opinion. I only like it on a girl, with the English pronunciation. Not that I like it much in general or would use it. But I think Angel on a girl is kind of cute. It is used as an affectionate nickname now, but mostly for females from my experience, maybe that's why I can't see it on a boy.

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This message was edited 1/26/2013, 1:21 PM

For this spelling- Spanish for males, English for females. I had one student named Angel who just graduated, and I have another who will probably be in 4k (our form of preschool) next year. Both Hispanic males. Not that a non-Hispanic male couldn't be named Angel, but if I saw, on paper, the name and male, I'd start saying it the way they do in Spanish.

I don't care for it on either gender. Despite the positive connotation, it has the same trashy feeling to me as Baby, Queen, Prince, Lovely, etc. I much prefer the more substantial Angela for a girl or Angelo for a boy.