Andżelina
From Latin, it carries the sense of "little angel". Just over 400 women in Poland answer to it, so most people here have never met one.
Andżelina Pronunciation
Andżelina is pronounced ahn-je-LEE-nah (/and͡ʐɛˈlina/).
What Andżelina means
Where Andżelina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Andżelina is the Polish spelling of a name that reaches back to Latin angelus, "messenger." Latin took the word from Greek angelos, and Christian writers narrowed that messenger into the winged figure we now call an angel. The ending is what shrinks it. The Italian diminutive -ina made a small angel out of the larger one, which is how the name arrives at its plain gloss: little angel, in Polish aniołek.
The dż in the middle is a Polish reading of a foreign sound. A child registered as Andżelina at the urząd wears an Italian and English name respelled to match how Poles say it, so the paperwork looks native while the root stays Latin.
There is no long roster of Polish saints or queens behind it. The name travelled on film and pop culture more than on liturgy, which keeps it feeling contemporary. The meaning underneath has barely moved since the Latin. Andżelina remains, letter by letter, a little angel.
How many people are named Andżelina
1 in 55802 women in Poland is named Andżelina. 404 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1469 among female names.
Andżelina's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Andżelina as a middle name
Andżelina is a first name for 404 women in Poland and a middle name for another 130, a 76/24 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 573rd, between Laurencja (131) and Camila (130).
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#571 Nikoletta132
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#572 Laurencja131
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#573 Andżelina130
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#574 Camila130
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#575 Jesica130