In 2025, 11 US girls were named Angella, making it the 8,917th most common girls’ name of the year, up 4,707 places from #13,624 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 6 girls named Angella in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #889, reached in 1971. That year also had the most girls given the name: 149. For comparison, it was #7,655 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Angella in 103 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1895 with 5 babies. In all, 3,581 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 1,241 babies named Angella.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 98 US girls were named Angella; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 17. In 2025 that was about 1 in 146,115 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Angela (675,392 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Anella are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Jamaican Patois. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.