# Angelica (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/angelica/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Italian |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 93,538 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 321 / 93,217 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,510, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Church Italian Angelica, from Latin angelica or a Latinate elaboration of Angela. Name of a heroine in Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (1516).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 867 | 369 |
| 2012 | 837 | 373 |
| 2013 | 734 | 412 |
| 2014 | 737 | 434 |
| 2015 | 756 | 423 |
| 2016 | 624 | 500 |
| 2017 | 576 | 538 |
| 2018 | 567 | 546 |
| 2019 | 514 | 591 |
| 2020 | 511 | 572 |
| 2021 | 497 | 599 |
| 2022 | 450 | 658 |
| 2023 | 463 | 634 |
| 2024 | 481 | 619 |
| 2025 | 398 | 708 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 19 | 2,862 |
| 1989 | 26 | 2,474 |
| 1990 | 20 | 3,062 |
| 1991 | 12 | 4,491 |
| 1992 | 8 | 6,160 |
| 1993 | 11 | 5,020 |
| 1994 | 9 | 5,891 |
| 1995 | 15 | 4,064 |
| 1996 | 8 | 6,531 |
| 1997 | 6 | 8,182 |
| 1999 | 7 | 7,918 |
| 2000 | 5 | 10,454 |
| 2002 | 5 | 10,772 |
| 2005 | 6 | 10,207 |
| 2007 | 5 | 12,474 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 76 | 545 |
| 2012 | 98 | 458 |
| 2013 | 61 | 659 |
| 2014 | 65 | 625 |
| 2015 | 55 | 722 |
| 2016 | 51 | 768 |
| 2017 | 62 | 666 |
| 2018 | 34 | 1,035 |
| 2019 | 52 | 737 |
| 2020 | 51 | 720 |
| 2021 | 34 | 1,007 |
| 2022 | 41 | 857 |
| 2023 | 22 | 1,410 |
| 2024 | 28 | 1,198 |
| 2025 | 30 | 1,110 |

## In other languages

- Catalan: Angèlica
- Estonian: Angelika
- French: Angélique
- German: Angelika
- Greek: Αγγελική
- Hungarian: Angyalka, Angelika
- Italian: Angelica
- Latvian: Anželika
- Polish: Angelika
- Portuguese: Angélica
- Russian: Анжелика
- Spanish: Angélica
- Swedish: Angelica

## People named Angelica

- Angélica Gorodischer, Argentine writer (1928–2022)
- Angélica, Brazilian recording artist, singer, actress and television presenter
- Angélica Margarita Arambarri, Argentinian botanist (1945-2012)
- Angie Cepeda, Colombian actress
- Crescencia Pérez, Argentinian nun (1897–1932)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.