Anzhelika
A Russian and Ukrainian form built on the Greek for "angelic". Fewer than 3,000 women in Poland carry it and almost no one gives it now, so rare that most Poles have never met one.
Anzhelika Pronunciation
Anzhelika is pronounced ahns-khe-LEE-kah (/ansxɛˈlika/).
What Anzhelika means
Where Anzhelika comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Anzhelika starts in Greek, in angelos, a messenger, and the adjective angelikos, meaning angelic. That older word for a messenger later took on the winged, sacred sense that gives the name its short meaning: angelic. The spelling itself is a Slavic one. Russian and Ukrainian speakers wrote the name with a zh that a Polish reader hears in words like żaba, and that consonant marks it as arriving from the East rather than through Latin.
In Russian and Ukrainian usage Anzhelika stands on its own, without the trail of diminutives that many Slavic names collect. There is no shortened pet form given here, and no cross-gender twin. The name comes as one word.
On a Polish class register the name can look like a visitor, its zh sitting where Polish would use a different letter. Read the ending though and the kinship shows: the Polish sense of the name is anielska, angelic, the same idea that Greek angelikos set down long before the spelling turned Slavic.
How many people are named Anzhelika
1 in 7969 women in Poland is named Anzhelika. 2,829 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #607 among female names.
Anzhelika's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.