Angelique

About Angelique

Angelique is connected with French Angélique and the wider Angelica family, meaning “angelic.” Dutch uses the unaccented spelling, and English records also commonly omit the French accent. Singer Angélique Kidjo and tennis champion Angelique Kerber give the name distinctive modern connections in music and sport.

Meaning and international forms

The family comes from Latin angelicus, “angelic,” ultimately related to Greek angelos, meaning “messenger.” French developed Angélique, while Dutch uses Angelique.

Angelica and German Angelika belong to the same family. Lieke is an established Dutch shorter form related to Angelique, with a much more compact sound.

French Angélique is approximately ahn-zhay-LEEK, with a nasal opening vowel and the soft zh sound heard in the middle of vision. The final que represents a k sound rather than an extra syllable.

The accent on é marks part of the French spelling. Its absence in Angelique does not necessarily signal a different name family, although Dutch and French pronunciations are not identical.

The older Angelica also appears in the Orlando poems of Boiardo and Ariosto. Those literary uses give the wider family a history that predates its modern musical and sporting bearers.

Angélique Kidjo

Angélique Kidjo won the Grammy Award for Best Global Music Album in 2022 for Mother Nature. The award connects the name with a major international recording career.

She became a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 2002, working on behalf of children alongside her music. Her advocacy has included girls' education, children's rights, and concerns about climate change.

Kidjo also established the Batonga foundation to support young women and girls in Africa. Her public work therefore extends from performance into education and community support.

Her first name is normally written with the French accent, Angélique. In many English-language contexts it also appears as Angelique, preserving the same recognizable spelling apart from that mark.

Angelique Kerber

German tennis player Angelique Kerber won the Australian Open and the US Open in 2016, then Wimbledon in 2018. Those three major singles titles place the name within the history of modern women's tennis.

Kerber reached the world number-one singles ranking in September 2016. Her major victories came on both hard courts and grass, linking her career with different conditions and styles of tournament play.

Together, Kerber and Kidjo give Angelique associations with two very different kinds of public performance: international competition and music.

American popularity

Angelique's largest published annual count and strongest United States ranking for girls came in 1970, with 942 births at #301.

There were 595 girls named Angelique in 2000 and 469 in 2010. In 2025, 193 girls received it, ranking #1,193.

The American count has therefore fallen from its late-twentieth-century levels, while the name remains recognizable through international figures and the wider Angelica family.

How popular is Angelique?

In 2025, Angelique ranked #1,193 among girls in the United States, with 193 recorded uses. The U.S. birth records first list this spelling for girls in 1915; its largest annual count was 942 in 1970. Rankings count each spelling separately. They describe national use, so local familiarity can differ. The popularity chart shows whether the name has remained common, returned after a quieter period, or risen recently.