Angela

Where Angela comes from

Feminine form of Church Latin Angelus, from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos, “messenger, angel”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Angela
  • Ancient Greek
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #679 among girls — 7 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1944
    Angela Davis born
    American political activist, scholar, and author
  3. 1954
    Angela Merkel born
    chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021
  4. 1975
    Peak, #5
    23,361 babies named Angela — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1984
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #26.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Namesakes
  • Angela Merkel · chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021, born 1954
  • Angela Davis · American political activist, scholar, and author, born 1944
  • Angela Lansbury · British-American-Irish actress and singer, 1925–2022
  • Angela Bassett · American actress, born 1958
  • Angela Carter · English novelist, 1940–1992

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.