Angus (given name)

Angus
Gender	Male
Language(s)	English
Origin
Language(s)	Scottish Gaelic, Irish
Word/name	Aonghas
Other names
Short form(s)	Gus
Pet form(s)	Angie
Derivative(s)	Angusina
See also	Aengus, Aonghus, Angaidh

Angus is a masculine given name in English. It is an Anglicised form of the Scottish Gaelic and Irish Aonghas, which is composed of Celtic elements meaning "one", and "choice". A variant spelling of the Scottish Gaelic name is Aonghus. The Irish form of the Scottish Gaelic name is Aengus. A pet form of the given name Angus is Angie, pronounced "an-ghee", which represents the Scottish Gaelic Angaidh. A short form of the given name Angus is Gus, which may be lengthened to Gussie.^[1] The feminine form of Angus is Angusina.^[2]

The earliest form of the given name Angus, and its cognates, occurs in Adomnán's Vita Columbae (English: "Life of Columba") as Oinogusius, Oinogussius. This name likely refers to a Pictish king whose name is recorded variously as Onnust, Hungus.^[1] According to historian Alex Woolf, the early Gaelic form of the name, Oengus, was borrowed from the Pictish Onuist, which appears in British as Ungust. Woolf noted that these names are all derived from the Celtic *Oinogustos.^[3] Linguist John Kneen derived this name from two Celtic elements the following way: *Oino-gustos, meaning "one-choice".^[4] Woolf also stated that between about AD 350 and AD 660, the Insular Celtic dialects underwent changes which included the loss of the final syllables and unstressed vowels, which affected *Oinogustos thus: *Oinogustos.^[5]

Variations[]

Old Irish	Modern Irish	Hiberno-English	Scottish Gaelic	Scottish English
Óengus	Aengus	Aeneas	Aonghas	Angus

People with the given name[]

Aenghus Ua Flainn (died 1036), Abbot of Clonfert
Aengus Mac Grianna (born 1964), Irish newsreader for Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ)
Angus Abbey (born 1925), Australian rules football player
Angus Abranson, game publisher
Angus Allan (1936–2007), British comic strip writer and magazine editor
Angus B. Rothwell (1905–1981), Superintendent of Public Instruction of Wisconsin
Angus Baker (1849–1924), navigator, ship's captain and political figure in Quebec
Angus Barnett (born 1963), English actor
Angus Beith (born 1996), Scottish footballer
Angus Bernard MacEachern (1759–1835), Scottish Bishop in the Roman Catholic Church
Angus Bethune (disambiguation)
Angus Black (born 1925), Scottish international rugby union player
Angus M. Bowie (born 1949), British classicist
Angus Brandt (born 1989), Australian professional basketball player
Angus Brayshaw (born 1996), Australian rules footballer
Angus Buchanan (disambiguation)
Angus Cameron (disambiguation)
Angus Cameron (American politician) (1826–1897), American politician
Angus Cameron (academic) (1941–1983), Canadian linguist
Angus Cameron (director), British director
Angus Campbell (disambiguation)
Angus Clark, guitarist, singer, songwriter, and producer
Angus Cottrell (born 1989), Australian rugby union footballer
Angus Creelman Ree (1929–2009), lawyer and political figure in British Columbia
Angus Deaton (born 1945), British-American economist and recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
Angus Deayton (born 1956), British comedian
Angus Donald (born 1965), English author
Angus Douglas-Hamilton (1863–1915), Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross
Angus Douglas-Hamilton, 15th Duke of Hamilton (1938–2010), also has subsidiary title as the 22nd Earl of Angus
Angus Falconer Douglas-Hamilton (1863–1915), Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross
Angus Duford (1891-1950), Canadian professional ice hockey player
Angus Dun (1892–1971), American bishop
Angus Dunlop (born 1967), Irish cricketer
Angus Dunnington (born 1967), English poker, online gambling specialist, and professional chess player
Angus Edmond (born 1976), New Zealand male cyclo-cross cyclist
Angus Finlay Hutton (born 1928), British naturalist born in India
Angus Fletcher, a British businessman and member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Angus Fogg (born 1967), championship winning New Zealand racecar driver
Angus Frantz (1895–1973), American wrestler
Angus Fraser (born 1965), English cricketer in the 1980s and 1990s
Angus Fregon (1880–1956), Australian rules footballer
Angus Gardner (born 1984), Australian professional rugby union referee
Angus Gibson (1842–1920), sugar planter and politician
Angus Goetz (1897–1977), American football player
Angus Graham (disambiguation)
Angus Hambro (1883–1957), British Conservative Party politician
Angus Harris (born 1977), Australian businessman
Angus Harrison (born 1992), British actor from Bristol, England
Angus Houston (born 1947), Australian soldier
Angus T. Jones (born 1993), Two and a Half Men actor
Angus W. Kerr (1873–1927), American politician
Angus King (born 1944), 72nd Governor of Maine
Angus Konstam (born 1960), Scottish author and historian
Angus Lennie (born 1930), Scottish actor
Angus MacAskill (1825–1862), tallest non-pathological giant in recorded history
Angus MacGyver title character and protagonist on ABC television series MacGyver (1985-1992); originally played by Richard Dean Anderson. In the 2016 reboot: played by Lucas Till
Angus Mackay (born 1939), Scottish historian
Angus MacLise (born 1938), American musician
Angus D. MacMillan (1839–1884), merchant and political figure on Prince Edward Island
Angus McLaren (born 1988), Australian Actor
Angus Matheson (1912–1962), inaugural Professor of Celtic at the University of Glasgow
Angus Monfries (born 1987), Australian rules footballer
(born 2005)
Angus Scrimm (1926–2016), actor and author
Angus Stone (born 1986), Australian folk-blues singer-songwriter and record producer-engineer
Angus G. Wynne (1914–1979), American businessman
Angus Young (born 1955), Scottish-born Australian guitarist from the band AC/DC
Angus Wall (born 1967), American film editor
Alan Young (born Angus Young) (1919-2016), star of Mister Ed

References[]

^ ^a ^b Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006), A Dictionary of First Names, Oxford Paperback Reference (2nd ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 16, 341, 399, 400, ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1
^ "Learn about the family history of your surname". Ancestry.com. Archived from the original on 5 October 2010. Retrieved 1 October 2010. which cited A Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-280050-7. for the given name "Angus".
^ Woolf, Alex (2007), From Pictland to Alba, 789-1070, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. xiv, 330, ISBN 978-0-7486-1233-8
^ "Christian Names". www.isle-of-man.com. Archived from the original on 18 August 2010. Retrieved 1 October 2010. which is a transcription of Kneen, J.J. (1937). The Personal Names of the Isle of Man. Oxford University Press.
^ Woolf, Alex (2007), From Pictland to Alba, 789-1070, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, p. 62, ISBN 978-0-7486-1233-8

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[H1-1] Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006), A Dictionary of First Names, Oxford Paperback Reference (2nd ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 16, 341, 399, 400, ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1

[2] "Learn about the family history of your surname". Ancestry.com. Archived from the original on 5 October 2010. Retrieved 1 October 2010. which cited A Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-280050-7. for the given name "Angus".

[W1-3] Woolf, Alex (2007), From Pictland to Alba, 789-1070, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. xiv, 330, ISBN 978-0-7486-1233-8

[4] "Christian Names". www.isle-of-man.com. Archived from the original on 18 August 2010. Retrieved 1 October 2010. which is a transcription of Kneen, J.J. (1937). The Personal Names of the Isle of Man. Oxford University Press.

[W2-5] Woolf, Alex (2007), From Pictland to Alba, 789-1070, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, p. 62, ISBN 978-0-7486-1233-8

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