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 parents choose Andżelika
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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Opole
+111%1 in 11,524 babies
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Podlaskie
+85%1 in 13,157 babies
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian
+55%1 in 15,626 babies
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Lower Silesian
−69%1 in 78,567 babies
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Lesser Poland
−68%1 in 75,639 babies
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Greater Poland
−21%1 in 30,749 babies
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Opole+111% 4 born1 in 11,524 babies+111%
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Podlaskie+85% 5 born1 in 13,157 babies+85%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian+55% 7 born1 in 15,626 babies+55%
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Masovian+51% 22 born1 in 16,103 babies+51%
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Warmian-Masurian+35% 4 born1 in 17,948 babies+35%
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Holy Cross+31% 3 born1 in 18,478 babies+31%
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Subcarpathian+21% 6 born1 in 20,094 babies+21%
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Lublin+18% 5 born1 in 20,535 babies+18%
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Pomeranian+15% 7 born1 in 21,046 babies+15%
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Łódź−4% 5 born1 in 25,344 babies−4%
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Silesian−4% 9 born1 in 25,287 babies−4%
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Greater Poland−21% 7 born1 in 30,749 babies−21%
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Lesser Poland−68% 3 born1 in 75,639 babies−68%
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Lower Silesian−69% 2 born1 in 78,567 babies−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 Konstancja4,218
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#154 Bożenna4,116
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#155 Andżelika4,089
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#156 Blanka4,054
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#157 Pola4,009