Angelina
From the Greek for "angel", at root a messenger. Barely 4,500 women in Poland carry it, rare enough that most people have never met one, though it has been climbing again after a thin stretch in the 2000s.
Angelina Pronunciation
Angelina is pronounced ahn-ge-LEE-nah (/angɛˈlina/).
What Angelina means
Where Angelina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Angelina grows from the Greek word angelos, which meant a messenger, someone sent to carry news. The same root gave Europe the word angel, and it stands behind Aniela and Angela. The short sense that clings to the name, anielska posłanniczka or angelic messenger, comes from that older work of delivering word.
The angel meaning came later. Angelos first named the runner with a message, and only Christian use bound the word to winged heralds. So the name reaches us doubled, a Greek courier underneath and something loftier on top.
In Slavic records Angelina also appears as Anhelina, a variant that keeps the breath of an Eastern spelling. A girl might one day meet both versions on a form at the urząd, one closer to Latin, one closer to the Cyrillic east, and choose which one signs her class register.
When Angelina celebrates name day
Angelina appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 14 July.
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 Angelina
1 in 5001 women in Poland is named Angelina. 4,508 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #509 among female names.
Angelina's popularity over time
37 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #408 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2017.
Where Angelina is most popular
Angelina is most popular in Lower Silesian, 107% above the national average (33 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Pomeranian (+74%) and Masovian (+67%). It is least common in Subcarpathian and Lublin, 84% and 81% below average respectively.
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Lower Silesian33 girls born+107%
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Pomeranian26 girls born+74%
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Masovian60 girls born+67%
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West Pomeranian14 girls born+64%
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Lubusz5 girls born−1%
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Greater Poland21 girls born−4%
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Podlaskie6 girls born−10%
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Opole4 girls born−14%
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Łódź11 girls born−14%
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Silesian19 girls born−18%
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Świętokrzyskie4 girls born−29%
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Lesser Poland9 girls born−61%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian3 girls born−73%
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Lublin2 girls born−81%
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Subcarpathian2 girls born−84%
Angelina as a middle name
Angelina is a first name for 4,508 women in Poland and a middle name for another 934, an 83/17 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 254th, between Miriam (948) and Iza (922).
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#252 Sophia960
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#253 Miriam948
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#254 Angelina934
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#255 Iza922
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#256 Elfryda918