Angelina

98,695 people in America carry this name — ranked #557 of 923.

A name being given more often than it was a generation ago.

Say it an jeh LEE nuh

4 syllables · the capitals are the stressed part

Phonetic transcription

AE0 N JH EH0 L IY1 N AH0 — ARPAbet, as published in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. The digit on a vowel marks its stress.

  • People counted 98,695 2020 Census
  • Rank #557 Familiar
  • As a surname 313 ranked #67,846 the other way round

The meaning and origin of Angelina

Greek in origin, reading literally as “angel”.

Origins are a matter of scholarly argument rather than record, and a name can be traced more than one way. We state one reading and say where it came from.

How often Angelina has been given

121,347 babies were given this name since 1880. The busiest year was 2005, with 5,812 of them.

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Most people carrying it were born in the 2000s. It has been given less often of late.

Counted from Social Security card applications, so it covers births registered in the United States and leaves out names given to fewer than five babies in a year.

Middle names that fit Angelina

Three syllables already, so a short middle name keeps the whole from running long.

Better avoided

  • Angelina Ashley — runs together
  • Angelina Amy — runs together
  • Angelina Anna — runs together

Chosen by sound from the pronouncing dictionary, then ordered by how often the name is given. None of it is a rule — the ear decides.

On the way up

Angelina is given more often now than it was a generation ago. Most names move the other way.

Is Angelina a boy's or a girl's name?

0.2% men
98,522 women

As recorded on census returns, not as anyone thinks the name ought to be used.

Full names people carry

The census counts first names and surnames separately and never together, so these are estimates: how often the two halves would meet if they paired at random. They do not — names cluster by community — so read them as an order of magnitude, not a headcount.

Names with the same rhythm as Angelina

Ends on the same sound

Same rhythm — 4 syllables, stress on the third

Matched on phonemes, not spelling, so the lists follow the ear rather than the page.

How Angelina is spelled

Angelina is how 41% of them spell it — 239,526 people answer to the sound.

Each spelling is its own census entry — the counts never overlap, so the shares are of the group, not of the country.

Names about as common

The nearest entries above and below by number of people.

Who carries it today

  • White alone (non-Hispanic) — 34.5%
  • Black or African American alone (non-Hispanic) — 4.5%
  • Hispanic or Latino origin — 48.8%
  • Two or more races — 3.7%
  • Asian and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone — 7.8%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native alone — 0.8%

Categories are how people answered the census — a fact about the bearers, not a property of the name. Conclusions are ours, not the Census Bureau’s.

This name in other languages

  • Ange French
  • Angel English
  • Anjela Bohemian
  • Angela Eng.|Span.|It
  • Angèle French
  • Ancela Polish
  • Agnola Italian
  • Agnolo Italian
  • Anziolo Ven
  • Aniello Neap
  • Angiolo Italian
  • Angelos
  • Angelot English
  • Anjelina Bohemian

Forms of one name traced to the same root. Spellings are as the glossary printed them, so some look older than the versions in use today.

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Where this page gets its numbers

  • Counts, ranks and shares: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census tabulations of first and last names occurring 100 or more times. Percentages, bands and groupings are our own arithmetic — the conclusions are ours, not the Bureau’s.
  • Pronunciation, syllables and rhyme groups: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, Carnegie Mellon University. The plain-English respelling is ours.
  • Origins and the forms a name takes in other languages: Charlotte Yonge, History of Christian Names, 1884 — a public-domain work. Scholarship has moved on since, so read it as one reading of a name, not the last word.

Below a hundred people we publish no figure at all — the same threshold the Census Bureau applies to us. What each source covers
Other names of Greek origin