Anjela
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- AN-jeh-luh
- Origin
- Greek
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Anjela is a girls' name of Greek origin, meaning “angel, messenger”. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Anjela mean?
Greek: variant of Angela
“angel, messenger”
Angela comes from Greek angelos, which originally meant a messenger.
Is Anjela a girl's or a boy's name?
Anjela is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Anjela in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 14,937th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Anjela, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. Its busiest year was 2005, with 31 girls. It first appears in the records in 1964.
Half of all the girls named Anjela in the US since 1880 were born between 1984 and 2005, the years shaded on the chart below.
Anjela in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,156 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,164 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,083 |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,532 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,709 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 8 | #11,925 |
| 2013 | 5 | #16,542 |
| 2012 | 5 | #16,863 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,719 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,240 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,054 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,472 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,390 |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,838 |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,369 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,386 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,050 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,386 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,062 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,152 |
| 1999 | 14 | #6,830 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,420 |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,839 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,387 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,252 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,011 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,413 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,001 |
| 1991 | 10 | #7,980 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,281 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,525 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,386 |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,820 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,153 |
| 1985 | 9 | #6,952 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,417 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,456 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,714 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,321 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,244 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,059 |
| 1978 | 10 | #5,957 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,424 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,609 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,171 |
| 1974 | 0 | – |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,078 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,556 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,541 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,245 |
| 1969 | 0 | – |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,244 |
| 1967 | 0 | – |
| 1966 | 0 | – |
| 1965 | 0 | – |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,008 |
Nicknames for Anjela
Names like Anjela
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ariana, Anika, Aisha, Sasha, Amanda, Alessandra, Selena, Alyssa, Amara, Aviva, Melina, Sophia
Names related to Anjela
More Greek names
Luca, Theodore, George, Theo, Lucas, Sofia, Alexander, Sebastian, Penelope, Phoebe, Margot, Luke, Chloe, Sophie, Zoe, Iris
Sources
Figures from 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, “Anjela: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/anjela, updated 20 October 2026.