Angelise
Feminine · “messenger”
Two French devices on one Greek word. Angel is angelos, a messenger; the -ise ending comes from Elise and Denise; and Caribbean Spanish naming has put them together, borrowing twice from a language none of the parties speaks.
How old is the name Angelise?
Angelise first appears in US birth records in 1982 — 43 years ago. The typical Angelise alive today was born around 2008, making them about 17 years old. About 900 people named Angelise are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Angelise most popular?
Angelise peaked in 2008, reaching #2831 nationally. Today it ranks #6838, 4,007 places below that high. See the whole 2008 chart.
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Where it comes from
From angelos to Angelise
Our story of Angelise
Puerto Rican and Dominican naming has borrowed from French for two centuries, and the borrowings are consistently of appearance rather than of substance: French endings, French doubled consonants, French-looking accents, attached to Spanish and Greek stems. Angelise is a clear case, and so are Angelis, Yamilise and Marielis. The effect inside those communities is not foreignness but modernity, and the same operation happens in English with -eigh and in Mexican Spanish with the initial Y. What it produces is a name that no French speaker would recognize and no Spanish speaker would find strange. Angelise's best year in United States records is 2008.
Meaning
messenger
Spanish angel, from Greek angelos, a messenger, used for human couriers before divine ones. The -ise ending is borrowed from the French names Elise, Denise and Louise, where it is a genuine ending; here it is a decorative suffix with no meaning. The compound therefore carries the Greek word and a French look.
How the name formed
- angelos
- Angel
- Angelise
Related forms: Angelis · Angeliz · Angelique
Pronouncing Angelise
ahn-heh-LEES
Three syllables with the stress at the end. The g before an e is an h sound in Spanish, which English speakers routinely replace with a hard g.
Nicknames for Angelise
Moderate
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
- 1982
- Most girls named
- 200863 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2831reached in 2008
- Change vs 2024
- −5.9%16 in 2025, from 17
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.
Angelise in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Angelis in Spanish — spelling variant
- Angeliz in Spanish — spelling variant
- Angelique in French — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Florida.
Angelises among us
people named Angelise are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 100,454 born in 2025 was named Angelise
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Pedro test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Angelise's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Pedro climbed just as high around 1932, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Pedro's path sketches the road Angelise is walking now.
Angelise sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Angelise beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Angelise in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled Greek meaning through a completely familiar word.
- Angel, Angie and Lise are three short forms in three languages.
- End-stressed, which is uncommon and gives it a clear rhythm.
- Angelis and Angeliz both circulate and split the records.
- English speakers will use a hard g rather than an h.
- The French ending is decorative and would puzzle a French speaker.
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Feminine · #6838 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Angelises are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Angelise are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Angelise in 2025?
- Angelise ranks #6838 among US girl names in 2025, with 16 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Angelise?
- About 1 in every 100,454 US girls born in 2025 was named Angelise — 16 in all.
- Will my child share the name Angelise with classmates?
- Angelise will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Angelise
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