Anzhela
A Greek name meaning "angel, messenger," carried into Poland through its Russian and Ukrainian forms. Fewer than 4,500 women here answer to it, and almost none are being given it now, so most Poles have never met one.
Anzhela Pronunciation
Anzhela is pronounced ahns-KHE-lah (/ansˈxɛla/).
What Anzhela means
Where Anzhela comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Anzhela begins with the Greek word angelos, which meant a messenger, someone sent to carry news. Early Christian writers used the same word for a messenger of God, and it settled into the meaning most people recognise now: angel. The name reached Russian and Ukrainian speakers through that Christian channel, and Anzhela is the form it took among them.
In Russia and Ukraine the name sits a little apart from the older Orthodox roster of Marias and Elenas. It sounds southern at the edges, nearer the Greek coast than the Slavic interior. On a Polish school register a girl named Anzhela stands out by the shape of the letters alone.
The meaning stays near the surface. Anzhela is a messenger. There are no diminutives or spelling variants to soften it, so the name goes about on its own. Whatever a bearer makes of her years, the Greek angelos holds under the spelling, a word for the one who is sent, an angel in the old sense.
How many people are named Anzhela
1 in 5387 women in Poland is named Anzhela. 4,188 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #524 among female names.
Anzhela as a middle name
Anzhela is a first name for 4,188 women in Poland and a middle name for another 3, a 100/0 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 4580th, between Antigoni (3) and Anżelina (3).
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4578
3Anne-Laure
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4579
3Antigoni
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45803Anzhela
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4581
3Anżelina
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4582
3Apolinaria