Angelika
Close to 65,000 Polish women carry it, yet it barely reaches the newborn rolls now: 18 girls last year. The root is the Greek *angelos*, "messenger," which Christian use narrowed to the angel, so the name simply reads as "angelic."
Angelika Pronunciation
Angelika is pronounced ahn-ge-LEE-kah (/angɛˈlika/).
What Angelika means
Where Angelika comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Angelika reaches back to the Greek angelos, a word for messenger. Early Christian writers narrowed that messenger to one kind, the angel, and the Latin adjective angelicus gave the name its plain gloss: angelic, or in Polish, anielska. The sense sits in the ending, and it explains why the name traveled across Catholic Europe.
Poland kept it and reshaped its edges. You will find anżelika on an official form, and the rarer anzhalika where transliteration crossed a border. Both point back to the same root.
The name also belongs to a plant. Angelica archangelica, the tall garden herb, holds the same Latin word, so the plant and the child share one root. In a school register the name lands unmistakably. Angelika celebrates her imieniny more than once, with January 4th and January 27th among the dates. The meaning stayed simple: angelic.
When Angelika celebrates name day
Angelika appears 7 times in the Polish name day calendar, 2 of them as a main name, the first on 26 May.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Angelika
1 in 347 women in Poland is named Angelika. 64,886 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #159 among female names.
Angelika's popularity over time
18 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #530 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #159 name among living women, even as it slips to #530 among newborns.
Where Angelika is most popular
Angelika is most popular in Lesser Poland, 97% above the national average (29 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Silesian (+56%) and Kuyavian-Pomeranian (+41%). It is least common in West Pomeranian and Pomeranian, 63% and 58% below average respectively.
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Lesser Poland29 girls born+97%
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Silesian23 girls born+56%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian10 girls born+41%
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Greater Poland17 girls born+22%
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Lublin7 girls born+5%
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Masovian22 girls born−4%
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Lower Silesian8 girls born−21%
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Łódź6 girls born−27%
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Opole2 girls born−33%
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Lubusz2 girls born−38%
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Subcarpathian4 girls born−49%
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Podlaskie2 girls born−53%
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Warmian-Masurian2 girls born−57%
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Pomeranian4 girls born−58%
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West Pomeranian2 girls born−63%
Angelika as a middle name
Angelika is a first name for 64,886 women in Poland and a middle name for another 20,578, a 76/24 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 87th, between Wioletta (21,245) and Martyna (20,318).
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#85 Czesława21,589
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#86 Wioletta21,245
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#87 Angelika20,578
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#88 Martyna20,318
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#89 Rozalia19,234