Anhelina
The Ukrainian form of Angelina, from the Greek for "angel" or "messenger". Fewer than 10,000 women in Poland carry it, and after a peak in the 2020s it's given a little less each year, so meeting one stays memorable.
Anhelina Pronunciation
Anhelina is pronounced ahn-khe-LEE-nah (/anxɛˈlina/).
What Anhelina means
Where Anhelina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Anhelina comes from Greek, from angelos, a word that named a messenger before it ever named an angel. The messenger was someone sent, a person who carried news from one place to another, sometimes between people and sometimes from what lay above.
The variant Angelina takes the same root. Anhelina keeps the Ukrainian shape, the soft h where a Polish speaker might reach for a g, and the name belongs mostly to Ukrainian families. Since 2022 it turns up more often on Polish official forms, written out at the urząd by people who crossed the border.
The meaning most people attach to it now is angel. That sense settled onto the name across centuries of Christian use, while the older Greek word underneath still points to a messenger, posłaniec in Polish. Angel and messenger both.
How many people are named Anhelina
1 in 2403 women in Poland is named Anhelina. 9,383 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #373 among female names.
Anhelina's popularity over time
18 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #531 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2020. Still the #373 name among living women, even as it slips to #531 among newborns.
Where Anhelina is most popular
Anhelina is most popular in Łódź, 520% above the national average (12 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lubusz (+164%) and Lower Silesian (+108%). It is least common in Pomeranian, 11% below average.
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Łódź12 girls born+520%
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Lubusz2 girls born+164%
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Lower Silesian5 girls born+108%
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Greater Poland6 girls born+83%
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Masovian6 girls born+11%
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Pomeranian2 girls born−11%
Anhelina as a middle name
Anhelina is a first name for 9,383 women in Poland and a middle name for another 11, a 100/0 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2238th, between Andreia (11) and Aretta (11).
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2236
11Anaïs
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2237
11Andreia
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223811Anhelina
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2239
11Aretta
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2240
11Ashanti