Andżelika
A Greek name meaning "angelic". Given steadily through the 2000s, it has thinned out since: today it sits well down the list, and meeting a young Andżelika would stick in your memory.
Andżelika Pronunciation
Andżelika is pronounced ahn-je-LEE-kah (/and͡ʐɛˈlika/).
What Andżelika means
Where Andżelika comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Andżelika begins with the Greek angelos, a word for messenger long before it named an angel. From its adjective form Latin took angelica, and with it the meaning the Polish name still holds: angelic, or in Polish anielska.
The spelling with dż shows the name arriving through Italian and French. Angelica is the great heroine of Ariosto's sixteenth-century Orlando Furioso, a princess of Cathay pursued across half the known world. The same word names a plant, Angelica archangelica, whose candied stems still flavour cakes and liqueurs.
In a Polish class register the full Andżelika sits formal and complete. Teachers read it out. No common diminutive has fixed itself to the name, so it stays as given. Its root has not moved in centuries: angelos, messenger, angelic.
How many people are named Andżelika
1 in 1908 women in Poland is named Andżelika. 11,817 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #343 among female names.
Andżelika's popularity over time
11 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #666 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #343 name among living women, even as it slips to #666 among newborns.
Where Andżelika is most popular
Andżelika is most popular in Opole, 111% above the national average (4 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Podlaskie (+85%) and Kuyavian-Pomeranian (+55%). It is least common in Lower Silesian and Lesser Poland, 69% and 68% below average respectively.
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Opole4 girls born+111%
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Podlaskie5 girls born+85%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian7 girls born+55%
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Masovian22 girls born+51%
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Warmian-Masurian4 girls born+35%
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Świętokrzyskie3 girls born+31%
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Subcarpathian6 girls born+21%
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Lublin5 girls born+18%
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Pomeranian7 girls born+15%
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Łódź5 girls born−4%
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Silesian9 girls born−4%
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Greater Poland7 girls born−21%
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Lesser Poland3 girls born−68%
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Lower Silesian2 girls born−69%
Andżelika as a middle name
Andżelika is a first name for 11,817 women in Poland and a middle name for another 4,089, a 74/26 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 155th, between Bożenna (4,116) and Blanka (4,054).
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153
4,218Konstancja
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154
4,116Bożenna
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1554,089Andżelika
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156
4,054Blanka
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157
4,009Pola