Angle Family History

English: habitational name from Angle in Pembrokes (see Nangle) or more frequently a topographic name for someone who lived on an odd corner of land from Middle English angle (from Latin angelus ‘angle corner’).

French (mainly Gironde): topographic name from angle ‘corner angle’ (compare 1 above) or perhaps a nickname from a homonymous Old French term denoting a measure of grain.

This surname is very rare in France. Americanized form of German or Dutch Engel.