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Angelica

Gender
Girl
Say it
an-JEL-i-ka
Origin
Greek
UK rank, 2025
#1,163 for girls
US rank, 2025
#707 for girls

Angelica is a girls' name of Greek origin, meaning “angelic”. In 2025 it ranked 1,163rd for girls in the UK (30 babies) and 707th for girls in the US (398 babies).

What does Angelica mean?

Greek: via Latin angelicus

“angelic”

Angelica is the beautiful princess pursued by knights in Ariosto's epic poem Orlando Furioso.

More on Wiktionary.

Is Angelica a girl's or a boy's name?

Angelica is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 30 girls in the UK and 398 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Angelica in the UK?

Rank in 2025
1,163rd among girls
Babies in 2025
30 about 1 in 9,300 girls
Five-year trend
Falling down 42% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 30 girls in the UK were named Angelica, making it the 1,163rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 796th. Its busiest year was 2012, with 99 girls.

Half of all the girls named Angelica in the UK since 1996 were born between 2005 and 2016. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.

Among girls in 2025, it was 1,110th in England and Wales.

1996Busiest: 99 in 20122025
Angelica in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202530#1,163
202428#1,248
202323#1,451
202243#878
202135#1,054
202051#796
201952#790
201836#1,050
201762#715
201653#803
201555#771
201468#647
201363#701
201299#490
201177#581
201079#557
200956#716
200875#554
200780#524
200680#515
200555#640
200448#670
200350#632
200243#676
200130#857
200040#682
199939#685
199831#813
199732#797
199637#699

How popular is Angelica in the US?

Rank in 2025
707th among girls
Babies in 2025
398 about 1 in 4,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steady down 16% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 398 girls in the US were named Angelica, making it the 707th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 572nd. Its busiest year was 1996, with 3,404 girls. It first appears in the records in 1892.

2025 had fewer girls named Angelica than any year since 1969.

Half of all the girls named Angelica in the US since 1880 were born between 1986 and 2002, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 406 girls in the US were given Angelica or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #702, up from #707 for this spelling alone.

1892Busiest: 3,404 in 19962025
Angelica in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
2025398#707
2024481#619
2023463#634
2022450#658
2021497#599
2020511#572
2019514#591
2018567#545
2017576#538
2016624#500
2015756#423
2014737#434
2013734#412
2012837#373
2011867#369
2010932#346
20091,128#292
20081,337#258
20071,516#232
20061,669#206
20051,788#192
20041,941#176
20032,213#152
20022,273#146
20012,435#136
20002,395#138
19992,821#116
19983,183#109
19973,381#101
19963,404#97
19953,357#101
19943,078#108
19933,242#98
19923,324#100
19912,823#117
19902,717#119
19892,876#107
19882,612#109
19872,601#106
19862,146#130
19851,542#176
19841,380#194
19831,464#186
19821,498#183
19811,502#183
19801,455#184
19791,305#204
19781,146#219
19771,133#220
19761,211#200
19751,210#201
19741,062#240
1973771#302
1972666#339
1971640#370
1970591#400
1969398#486
1968315#541
1967313#532
1966247#602
1965247#619
1964240#658
1963187#753
1962148#867
1961147#879
1960127#945
1959123#943
195893#1,088
195790#1,099
195688#1,099
195596#1,025
195487#1,052
195377#1,102
195259#1,235
195148#1,338
195067#1,122
194943#1,408
194846#1,357
194751#1,269
194643#1,317
194532#1,417
194435#1,363
194335#1,394
194233#1,413
194130#1,418
194039#1,170
193929#1,378
193840#1,140
193729#1,355
193639#1,135
193531#1,307
193426#1,440
193327#1,400
193230#1,346
193136#1,199
193041#1,161
192929#1,418
192829#1,468
192730#1,485
192628#1,540
192530#1,503
192456#1,031
192330#1,490
192228#1,575
192122#1,867
192024#1,708
191915#2,264
191823#1,690
191718#1,922
191625#1,485
191522#1,571
191419#1,480
191314#1,601
191223#1,080
19119#1,656
191011#1,421
19096#1,957
19085#2,101
19076#1,820
19066#1,727
19050–
19040–
19030–
19020–
19010–
19000–
18990–
18980–
18977#1,263
18965#1,582
18950–
18940–
18930–
18925#1,450

Nicknames for Angelica

Names like Angelica

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Ariana, Alexandra, Athena, Lara, Jessica, Olivia, Gabriella, Ava, Fatima, Sophia, Isabella, Alana

Other spellings of Angelica

Anjelica

Names related to Angelica

Angelika, Angeliki, Angelique, Angelic, Angelice, Angelik, Angelicia, Angellica

More Greek names

Luca, Theodore, George, Theo, Lucas, Sofia, Alexander, Sebastian, Penelope, Phoebe, Margot, Luke, Chloe, Sophie, Zoe, Iris

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Angelica: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/angelica, updated 20 October 2026.