Angeline

Where Angeline comes from

Borrowed from French Angeline. By surface analysis, Angela + -ine. Piecewise doublet of Angelina.
— Wiktionary's entry for Angeline
  • French
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1357
    Angeline of Marsciano born
    Italian Tertiary Franciscan foundress
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #317 among girls — 25 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1915
    Peak, #183
    922 babies named Angeline — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1933
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #315.
  5. 1980
    Angeline Murimirwa born
    Zimbabwean feminist and education activist
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from French.
Namesakes
  • Angeline Murimirwa · Zimbabwean feminist and education activist, born 1980
  • Angeline of Marsciano · Italian Tertiary Franciscan foundress, 1357–1435
  • Angeline Stickney · American suffragist, abolitionist, and mathematician, 1830–1892
  • Angeline Ball · Irish actress, born 1969
  • Angeline Malik · Pakistani actor and director, born 1975

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.