Anzhalika
Around 248 women in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one. A transliterated spelling of Angelika, from the Greek for "angelic".
Anzhalika Pronunciation
Anzhalika is pronounced ahns-khah-LEE-kah (/ansxaˈlika/).
What Anzhalika means
Where Anzhalika comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Anzhalika comes from Greek. Behind it stands "angelos", a messenger, the word that grew into "angelikos", angelic. In Polish the name settled into the spellings Angelika and Anżelika, both following the Latin line. Anzhalika keeps the transliterated form, the shape a name takes when Cyrillic letters are carried across into the Latin alphabet.
The short meaning recorded here is "angelic", in Polish "anielska", posłanka boża. That last phrase points back to the oldest layer. The Greek "angelos" named a messenger before it named anything winged. The idea of sweetness and mild temper attached to the name later, once angels had become figures of art and prayer.
Picture a class register at the start of the school year. A teacher reads down the list and reaches Anzhalika beside a row of Angelikas and Anżelikas. Same root, three spellings.
A bearer of this name holds a Greek word for one who is sent. The meaning kept on the record stays plain: anielska, posłanka boża.
How many people are named Anzhalika
1 in 90903 women in Poland is named Anzhalika. 248 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1948 among female names.