Angla
Feminine · Greek roots · “angel”
Angla is Angela written in two syllables instead of three. Its letters sit a single step from two words that a famous old story set side by side: the Angles, the people of early England, and the angels Pope Gregory the Great said they resembled.
How old is the name Angla?
Angla first appears in US birth records in 1955 — 70 years ago. The typical Angla alive today was born around 1971, making them about 54 years old. About 500 people named Angla are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Angla most popular?
Angla peaked in 1971, reaching #2212 nationally. See the whole 1971 chart.
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Where it comes from
From angelos (Greek) to Angla
The story of Angla
The Venerable Bede, writing in Northumbria in the eighth century, tells how Gregory, before he became pope, saw fair-haired boys offered for sale in the market at Rome. Told they were Angles, he answered that the name suited them, for they had the faces of angels; later tellings shortened it to 'not Angles but angels'. Angla sits one letter from each word in that pun: change its last letter and it is Angle, restore a vowel and it is Angela. The name itself is simply Angela with its middle vowel dropped, and nothing records its first use.
Meaning
angel, messenger (as Angela)
Angla is a short spelling of Angela, the feminine of the Latin Angelus, from the Greek angelos, 'messenger'. The record keeps no separate meaning for the shortened form.
How the name formed
- angelosGreek
- AngelusLatin
- Angela
- Angla
Related forms: Angela · Angèle · Angeliki
Pronouncing Angla
ANJ-luh
Meant to be said as a two-syllable Angela. English spelling softens a g only before e, i or y, so a cold reader may say ANG-gluh, as in angle.
Nicknames for Angla
Limited
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
- 1955
- Most girls named
- 197136 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2212reached in 1971
- Change vs 1987
- −28.6%5 in 1990, from 7
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.
Angla in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Angela in Italian — same name
- Angèle in French — related form
- Angeliki in Greek — related form
Anglas among us
people named Angla are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Angla 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
The trade-off
- Rests on Angela, a name with a long record in English and across Europe.
- Compact: two syllables instead of three.
- Takes Angie, a short form everyone already knows.
- Most readers will take it for a misspelling of Angela and add the missing e back. The name will need spelling for life.
- Without that e the g looks hard, and many will say ANG-gluh, like angle or Anglo, until corrected. A word the first time is usually enough.
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Frequently asked
- How many Anglas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Angla are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Angla in 2025?
- Angla is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Angla with classmates?
- Angla will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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