Angless meaning | Last name Angless origin

The lastname Angless is the variant form of Angel. One who acted as a religious messenger or as a messenger from God; a nickname for an angelic person; descendant of Angel, a man's name in England. It can also be a variant of Angle.

The surname Angless is the form of Angle. Dweller at, or near, the angle or corner.

Angless is the variation of the Angell. A common inn sign. More probably, however, from Anegole or Angold, a personal name, as we find it occasionally with the suffix son. Sometimes there may be a direct allusion to the celestial hierarchy, as in the cognate foreign surnames Angelo, Angellis, Angellico.

The Angless is a variant form of Angle. See Nangle - The Anglo-Norman family of De Angulo, or In Angulo (whence perhaps the English Corner), took their name from their barony of Angle, situated in a nook or angle, close to Milford Haven, and their residence there was called Nangle's Castle. Gilbert de Angulo, who accompanied Strongbow to the Conquest of Ireland in 1172, was the progenitor of the Irish Nangles.