Ângela
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/anʒɛlɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ângela is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 61st most common given name. Recorded meaning: Feminine form of Church Latin Angelus, from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos, “messenger, angel”).
- ITItaly≈1 in 281(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 283
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 368
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ângela itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #93 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 650 (measured from records)
- 1 in 166 (inferred from the name graph)
600,162 people, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Angela in US United States, GB United Kingdom, EC Ecuador and 2 more, Anzhela in MD Moldova and Անժելա in AM Armenia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Feminine form of Church Latin Angelus, from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos, “messenger, angel”).
Sources 8
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ângela counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #61 | 600,162 | 1 in 554 | 599K | Angela | 650 |
| BR Brazil | — | 268,995 | 1 in 787 | 279K | Ângela | 76 |
| IT Italy | #140 | ≈220,000 est. | ≈1 in 281 | 241 | Angela | 196 |
| GB United Kingdom | #70 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 368 | — | Angela | 340 |
| NG Nigeria | #212 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Angela | 105 |
| EC Ecuador | #59 | 59,813 | 1 in 283 | 60K | Angela | 67 |
| MD Moldova | #278 | 20,226 | 1 in 166 | 20K | Anzhela | 45 |
| AM Armenia | #63 | ≈9,200 est. | ≈1 in 328 | 108 | Անժելա | 38 |
600,162 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INEC — civil registry names; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); e-services.md — living population register; Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia — Most Frequent Newborn Given Names by Sex, Armenian script, 2008-2020 + 2023. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ângela Ribeirob. 1940PTPortuguese actress
- Ângela Guadagninb. 1948BRBrazilian politician
- Ângela Carrascalãob. 1951TLjournalist, author, university teacher and former minister
- Ângela Vieirab. 1952BRBrazilian actress
- Ângela Aminb. 1953BRBrazilian politician
- Ângela Correab. 1954BRBrazilian actress
- Ângela Ferreirab. 1958MZplastic artist of Portuguese origin (born 1958)
- Ângela Dipb. 1961BRBrazilian actress
- Ângela Figueiredob. 1961BRBrazilian actress
- Ângela Portelab. 1962BRBrazilian politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 279K | #181 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ângela mean, and where does it come from?
- Feminine form of Church Latin Angelus, from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos, “messenger, angel”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and 6 other sources.
- What are other forms of the name Ângela?
- In the etymology graph, Angelica, Angie and Angelique are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Ângela?
- A machine transcription gives /anʒɛlɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Ângela a male or female name?
- Ângela is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Ângela have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 600 thousand people named Ângela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled angela.
- Where is Ângela most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ângela is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 166 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ângela?
- In the United States, the national register counted 600,162 people named Ângela in 2020, about 1 in 554 residents.
- How common is Ângela compared with other names?
- In the United States, Ângela is the 61st most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A2ngelaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ângela” — the 61st most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.