Angelina

What Angelina means

Means “a female resident of Los Angeles”

Alternative form of Angelena (“a female resident of Los Angeles”); feminine of Angelino (“a male resident of Los Angeles”);

Source: Wiktionary, “Angelina” (revision 94534464), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Angelina?

US: Falling: down from #163 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #478 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2005, when 5,813 girls got the name (#43 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 1,837 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 5,506 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in RI (2.04 per 1,000 girls), NJ (1.35 per 1,000 girls), NM (1.28 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Angelina is #347 in the US and #792 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Angelina were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

If you like Angelina

Girls

• Arianna#234Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #56 in 2015, #234 in 2025
• Allie#569Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #255 in 2015, #569 in 2025
• Chloe#23“young green shoot”^*
• Melanie#142“black, dark”^*
• Ariana#128Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #46 in 2015, #128 in 2025
• Lilly#252Form of Lilian, possibly meaning “lily”^*

For a brother

• Angel#67Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #67 vs #1,307 in 2025
• Damien#352Form of Damian, meaning “to tame”^*
• Gabriel#37Finnish, meaning “God is my strong man, God is my hero”^*
• Andy#565Diminutive of Andrew, meaning “manly”^*
• Alexis#513“helper, defender”^*
• Colin#343Short form of Nicholas, meaning “victory + people”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Greek, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Angelina’s. Rank is US 2025.