Angelina
Masculine · Greek roots · “little angel”
Angelina is given to girls far more often — 126,281 girls against 111 boys since 1880. See Angelina as a girl name
Angelina entered the US charts in 1924, peaked at #2980 in 1929, is rarely given in 2025 — given to only a few children a year.
How old is the name Angelina?
Angelina first appears in US birth records in 1924 — 101 years ago. The typical Angelina alive today was born around 1989, making them about 36 years old. Fewer than a hundred people named Angelina are estimated to be alive in the US today — a true one-of-a-kind name.
When was the name Angelina most popular?
Angelina peaked in 1929, reaching #2980 nationally. See the whole 1929 chart.
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Where it comes from
From angelos (Greek, 'messenger') to Angelina
The story of Angelina
The word behind the name is Greek angelos, a messenger, which the Greek translators of the Hebrew Bible used for the heavenly messengers and which passed into Latin as angelus. From that came Angelus and Angela as personal names in medieval Christian Europe, and Italian did what Italian does — added -ina to make Angelina, a name long at home in Italy and in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries. Italian and Latin American immigration carried it into American use, and it has stayed in the American record ever since, moving up and down but never disappearing. Russian took it as well, spelled Ангелина and pronounced almost identically.
Meaning
little angel; from Greek 'messenger'
The root is Greek angelos, 'messenger', which Christian Greek and then Latin took up as the word for an angel. Angela is the feminine of that; Angelina adds the Italian diminutive -ina, so the sense is roughly 'little Angela' or 'little angel'.
How the name formed
- angelosGreek, 'messenger'
- AngelusLatin
- Angela
- Angelina
Related forms: Angelina · Angelina · Angelina · Ангелина · Angéline · Aniela
Pronouncing Angelina
an-juh-LEE-nuh
Stress on the third syllable. Italian and Spanish speakers say ahn-jeh-LEE-nah with a fuller second vowel; both are the same name and neither needs correcting.
Nicknames for Angelina
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What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1924
- Most boys named
- 200413 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2980reached in 1929
- Change vs 2009
- −16.7%5 in 2010, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Angelina in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Angelina in Italian — same name
- Angelina in Spanish — same name
- Angelina in Portuguese — same name
- Ангелина in Russian — transliteration
- Angéline in French — related form
- Aniela in Polish — related form
Angelinas among us
Fewer than a hundred people named Angelina are estimated to be alive in the US today — a true one-of-a-kind name.
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
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Fashion outlook
Angelina sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
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Frequently asked
- How many Angelinas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. Fewer than a hundred people named Angelina are estimated to be alive in the US today — a true one-of-a-kind name.
- How popular is the name Angelina in 2025?
- Angelina is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Angelina with classmates?
- Angelina will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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