Angela
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Italian/German; grace or favoured by God
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Angela 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.
- 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 Angela 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 Ângela in BR Brazil, 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)
Italian/German; grace or favoured by God
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Angela 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Angela is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
From Church Latin, a feminine form of the boy’s name Angelus (see Angel). The older feminine form Angelis has been completely superseded by Angela, which increased greatly in popularity in
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
From Latin. See Angela in main _ dictionary.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In English, A female given name from Ancient Greek.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
anjo; befor 1400
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Swedish, Angela är en italiensk och engelsk femininform till Angelus, bildat till latinets a ngelus, i sin tur av grekiskans ángelos ’(Guds) budbärare, ängel’. En känd namnbärare är A ngela Merkel (f. 1954), Tysklands tidigare förbundskansler. I den rikssvenska almanackan 7 december och i den finlandssvenska 8 december.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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)
- Isadora Duncanb. 1877USnot in their usual nameAmerican dancer and choreographer (1877–1927)
- Queen Elizabeth The Queen Motherb. 1900GBnot in their usual nameQueen consort of the United Kingdom from 1936 to 1952 (1900–2002)
- Angela Lansburyb. 1925GBBritish-American-Irish actress and singer (1925–2022)
- Angela Davisb. 1944USAmerican political activist, scholar, and author (born 1944)
- leader of the free worldb. 1954DEnot in their usual namechancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
- Ángela Molinab. 1955ESSpanish actress
- Angela Bassettb. 1958USAmerican actress (born 1958)
- Angela Gheorghiub. 1965RORomanian opera soprano
- Angela Gossowb. 1974DEGerman metal vocalist
- Angela Beesleyb. 1977GBco-founder of Wikia
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 142 sources across 69 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 599K | #70 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 279K | #183 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 269K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 268K | #116 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 60K | #13 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 20K | #62 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 3.5K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1K | #116 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 836 | #70 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 765 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 289 | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 241 | #114 |
Reference works 7
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Angela mean, and where does it come from?
- Italian/German; grace or favoured by God Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- What are other forms of the name Angela?
- In the etymology graph, Angelica, Angelina and Angelique are forms of the same name in other languages; Angie is a recorded short or pet form.
- How common is the name Angela?
- In the United States, the national register counted 600,162 people named Angela in 2020, about 1 in 554 residents.
- How common is Angela compared with other names?
- In the United States, Angela is the 61st most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
- Is Angela a male or female name?
- Angela 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 Angela have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 600 thousand people named Angela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled angela.
- Where is Angela most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Angela is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 166 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/angelaThe 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, “Angela” — the 61st most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.