The given name Angelina can be seen as a diminutive form of Angela. The meaning is derived from the Greek ‘ángelos’, which stands for ‘angel’ or ‘messenger’.
Angelina is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Angelina isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Angelina ranks 182. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 10 were named Angelina. In the entire USA, approximately 116,801 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Angelina. That is 0.03 % of all living Americans.
The given name Angelina can be seen as a diminutive form of Angela. The meaning is derived from the Greek ‘ángelos’, which stands for ‘angel’ or ‘messenger’.
Did you know... that the name of the actress Angelina Jolie can be translated as 'beautiful angel'?
If we dig really deep into our statistics, we find that there are very few girls' names that have been consistently popular for so long that they have been given to newborns in every single year since the beginning of our records in 1880. In fact, there are only 432 girls' names that appear in our statistics in every single year, and Angelina is one of those very special classics. At the same time, Angelina has never been more popular than it is in this century - in 2005, the name even made it to rank #42 of the most popular girls' names, easily landing in the top 100 of our SmartGenius first name statistics.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Angelina was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
...because: In 2022, 1,044 girls were born and given the name Angelina by their parents. That puts Angelina at #279 on our list of most popular girls' names. It was much less popular in 1961 - only 236 parents chose this name for their newborn daughter and it ranked 644 on the popularity scale of all girls' names.
There are only 537 different women’s names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Angelina is one of them. However, Angelina is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Nevada seem to particularly fancy this name – the 1,061 women called Angelina who live here are 0,238% of all female residents and push their name up to #98, easily placing it in the top 100 most common female names in Nevada.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.
With eight letters, the name Angelina is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.
If your name is Angelina and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Angelina, you can simply say:
Apple
Nut
Goat
Elephant
Lion
Igloo
Nut
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Angelina
Angelina
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
N
G
E
L
I
N
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
A
N
G
E
L
I
N
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Angelina sounds like this:
