Angelina

Where Angelina comes from

From Italian Angelina. By surface analysis, Angela + -ina. Piecewise doublet of Angeline.
— Wiktionary's entry for Angelina
  • Ancient Greek
  • 4 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #580 among girls — 9 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 2001
    Angelina Mango born
    Italian singer-songwriter
  3. 2005
    Angelina Topić born
    Serbian high jumper
  4. 2005
    Peak, #43
    5,813 babies named Angelina — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2011
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #104.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Ancient Greek, an Italian diminutive of Angela.
Namesakes
  • Angelina Mango · Italian singer-songwriter, born 2001
  • Angelina Topić · Serbian high jumper, born 2005
  • Angelina Melnikova · Russian artistic gymnast, born 2000
  • Angelina Valentine · American pornographic actress, born 1986
  • Angelina Jordan · Norwegian singer, born 2006

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.