Anżelika
A Latin name meaning "angelic". Only about 144 women in Poland carry it, and hardly any parents choose it now: fewer than two newborn girls got it last year, so most Poles have never met one.
Anżelika Pronunciation
Anżelika is pronounced ahn-zhe-LEE-kah (/anʐɛˈlika/).
What Anżelika means
Where Anżelika comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Anżelika descends from the Latin angelicus, meaning angelic, which itself borrowed from the Greek angelos, a word for messenger. The name therefore begins with an errand rather than a halo. Before angels were painted with wings, they were the ones who brought word.
The name travels under several spellings. Angelika keeps the firmer g of the Latin, while Anzhalika records the softer sound as it passes between alphabets. In Polish the meaning settles as anielska. Each form points back to the same root, and each has been carried by real women across Poland and beyond.
On a September class register, an Anżelika might sit two desks from an Angelika, the same name in two spellings. Her imieniny can fall in July, shared with others who bear the angelic name. The link to messengers faded from daily use long ago, yet it stays inside the word. Anżelika still means angelic, still reads as anielska.
How many people are named Anżelika
1 in 156554 women in Poland is named Anżelika. 144 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2713 among female names.
Anżelika as a middle name
Anżelika is a first name for 144 women in Poland and a middle name for another 37, an 80/20 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1135th, between Annemarie (37) and Bożysława (37).
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#1133 Anatola37
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#1134 Annemarie37
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#1135 Anżelika37
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#1136 Bożysława37
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#1137 Catharina37