Anela

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Anela is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bosnia & Herzegovina than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Ángel.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 7.4K(measured from records)
  • BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 690
  • SISlovenia1 in 6.9K

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 Anela 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.

Bosnia & Herzegovina (inferred from the name graph)

≈5,600 people, est.

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
79 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 690 (inferred from the name graph)

Bosnia & Herzegovina, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

AnelaLatin(measured from records)
АнелаCyrillic(measured from records)
ანელაGeorgian(measured from records)

Locally spelled Анела in MK North Macedonia.

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)

Ángel

Sources 1

  • 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

Where in the world(measured from records)

Anela 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.

Where Anela is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina#250≈5,600 est.≈1 in 690—Anela31
US United States—1,6111 in 206K1.6KAnela79
ZA South Africa—≈1,200 est.≈1 in 48K—Anela12
HR Croatia#7235731 in 7.4K573Anela50
SI Slovenia#7623031 in 6.9K312Anela13
MK North Macedonia—178as Анела1 in 12K178Анела2
XK Kosovo—≈110 est.≈1 in 18K804—2

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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); State Statistical Office — living population names. 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Anela is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, South Africa, India

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Añela, Anèla, Ânela

  • Spanish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, Brazil, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Añela, Ânela, Ãnela

  • French given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina

    Also written Anéla, Anelã

36 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Anela is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In nd, to suffice

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 56 sources across 31 countries.

Official registers attesting Anela
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 Anela mean, and where does it come from?
Ángel Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado.
Is Anela a male or female name?
Anela 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 Anela have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 5.6 thousand people named Anela in Bosnia & Herzegovina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled anela.
How common is the name Anela?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,611 people named Anela in 2020, about 1 in 206 thousand residents.
How common is Anela compared with other names?
In Bosnia & Herzegovina, Anela is the 250th most common given name of 4,559 given names recorded there.

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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, “Anela” — the 250th most common given name in Bosnia & Herzegovina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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