Angela

Feminine form of Church Latin Angelus, from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos, “messenger, angel”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈænd͡ʒələ/

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Angela

1. A female given name from Ancient Greek.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 56:

     Faire Angela (quoth she) men do her call, / No whit lesse faire, then terrible in fight: / She hath the leading of a Martiall / And mighty people, dreaded more then all / The other Saxons, which do for her sake / And love, themselves of her name Angles call.

   • 1996, Frank McCourt, chapter I, in Angela's Ashes, HarperCollins., →ISBN, page 5:

     And the child was named Angela for the Angelus which rang the midnight hour, the New Year, the minute of her coming and because she was a little angel anyway.
     ibid., page 39:
     The man says his name is Mr. Dimino and that's his wife, Angela, behind the counter. I tell him that's my mother's name. No kiddin', kid. Your mother is Angela? I didn't know the Irish had any Angelas.

• Name of an Italian 15th/16th century saint. In general use in English since the 18th century.

• (pet form): Angie, Ang, Ange
• (variants): Angel, Angelica, Angelina, Angeline, Angelique
• (male names): Angel, Angelo

• Galena, alnage, anlage, galena, lagena

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑnɡ̊elɑ/, [ˈɑŋɡ̊elɑ]

Angela

1. a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Angela

• Angelika
• Angelina

• Ingel

Angela f

1. a female given name from Latin

Matronymics

• son of Angela: Angeluson
• daughter of Angela: Angeludóttir

• IPA^(key): /ˈaŋɡela/, /aŋˈɡeːla/, /ˈaŋəla/

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Angela f (proper noun, genitive Angelas or (with article) Angela, plural Angelas)

1. a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Angela

• Angelika, Angelina

• IPA^(key): /ˈan.d͡ʒe.la/
• Rhymes: -andʒela
• Hyphenation: Àn‧ge‧la

Angela f

1. a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Angela

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈaŋ.ɡɛ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈan̠ʲ.d͡ʒe.la]

Angela f (genitive Angelae); first declension

1. a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Angela

First-declension noun.

Angela f

1. a female given name

• IPA^(key): [ˈanɡela]

Angela f (genitive singular Angely, nominative plural Angely, declension pattern of žena)

1. a female given name from Latin

• Andela
• Angelka
• Andelka
• Angelika

• “Angela”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

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Angela c (genitive Angelas)

1. a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Angela

• Angelica