Anglia
Feminine · “The Latin name for England”
Anglia is the Latin name for England, the land of the Angles, and it sounds a single letter away from Angela. In the twentieth century it was also a small British car, one of which flew a boy wizard to school.
How old is the name Anglia?
Anglia first appears in US birth records in 1954 — 71 years ago. The typical Anglia alive today was born around 1969, making them about 56 years old. About 600 people named Anglia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Anglia most popular?
Anglia peaked in 1966, reaching #1632 nationally. See the whole 1966 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Angli to Anglia
The story of Anglia
Medieval writers in Latin called England Anglia, and the word survives in East Anglia and in the names of universities and institutions. Ford took it up in 1939 for a small family car sold in Britain until the late sixties, and in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets an enchanted turquoise Ford Anglia flies Harry and Ron to Hogwarts and ends up living wild in the Forbidden Forest. As an American girl's name Anglia belongs to the middle of the twentieth century, when Angela was everywhere, and nothing records whether a given family meant the country or a variation on Angela.
Meaningscholars disagree
The Latin name for England, or a variant of Angela
Anglia is Latin for 'land of the Angles', the people who gave England its name. American Anglias may instead be shaped from Angela or Angelia; the record does not say which.
How the name formed
- Angli
- Anglia
Related forms: Anglia · Angela · Angelia
Pronouncing Anglia
ANG-glee-uh
Three syllables with the stress on the first.
Nicknames for Anglia
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
- 1954
- Most girls named
- 196647 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1632reached in 1966
- Change vs 1984
- +16.7%7 in 1985, 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.
Anglia in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Anglia in Latin — same name
- Angela in English — related form
- Angelia in English — related form
Anglias among us
people named Anglia 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
Anglia 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
- Easy to say, and close to Angela.
- Carries a real Latin word with a long history.
- Very rare, so an Anglia is unlikely to share her name.
- People will hear Angela or Angelia and write it that way.
- British listeners will think of the Ford car, and Harry Potter readers of the flying one.
- A name that means 'England' may raise eyebrows in Scotland, Wales or Ireland.
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Frequently asked
- How many Anglias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Anglia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Anglia in 2025?
- Anglia is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Anglia with classmates?
- Anglia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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