Angelina

A girls’ name of Greek origin, meaning angel; messenger; feminine form of Angelo.

Babies a year
1,550
the US, 2017
Rarity
Uncommon
among names in use
US popularity
#347
down from #313
UK popularity
#792
46 babies

How Angelina has moved

US popularity rank, 2015–2025. Lower is more popular.
#133#255#377201520202025#347

View as table
YearUS rank
2015#163
2016#175
2017#199
2018#233
2019#290
2020#290
2021#296
2022#305
2023#314
2024#313
2025#347

Angelina by the numbers

In 2025, 46 babies in England and Wales were named Angelina. In the US, 1,550 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in the US than in England and Wales.

Its American peak was 5,809 babies in 2005, making it a 2000s name.

At its height, in 2005, about 1 in 350 American girls born that year was called Angelina.

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Angelina as a share of American girls born, 1880 to 2008, at five year intervals. Source: US Social Security Administration.

Other names that come from Angelo

Like Angelina, each of these traces back to Angelo: a form of it, a name built from it, or a son or daughter of it. Not always the same sex.

  • Angelomessenger or angel; from angelos1,020 in the US (2017)
  • Anjelomessenger, angel; a form of Angelo6 in the US (2017)

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Angelina. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Angelicaangelic; from angelicus570 in the US (2017)
  • Angelinemessenger; a form of Angela214 in the US (2017)
  • Angeliamessenger or angel; a form of Angela63 in the US (2017)
  • Angelikamessenger; angel; a form of Angela34 in the US (2017)
  • Angelitalittle angel; a diminutive of angela31 in the US (2017)
  • Angelinlittle angel; form of Angelina16 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Angelina

Names that are said the same way as Angelina, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

  • Angelenamessenger; a form of Angela11 in the US (2017)
  • Angelynamessenger; a form of Angela11 in the US (2017)
  • Angellinamessenger; a form of Angela5 in the US (2017)

Other names that mean a messenger

Like Angelina, each of these has a messenger in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.

  • Angelmessenger of God6,157 in the US (2017)
  • Angelamessenger, angel1,344 in the US (2017)
  • UrielGod is my light; angel name558 in the US (2017)
  • Angieangel; messenger; a diminutive of Angela456 in the US (2017)
  • Angeliqueangelic; french form of Angelica340 in the US (2017)
  • Bodieherald, messenger; from place name89 in England and Wales (2025)

Names about as common as Angelina

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