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Anjela

#15,132 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Anjela has been given to 587 babies in the U.S. since 1964. In 2025 it ranked #15,132 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 31 recorded.

Babies named Anjela, 2025

1 in 663,000

Anjela over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anjela: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Anjela means

Anjela is a given name.

The naming story behind Anjela

Charlotte M. Yonge’s 1884 History of Christian Names includes the exact spelling Anjela in its glossary. The entry labels it feminine and points to printed page(s) 53.

The glossary’s abbreviated description reads: “Bohm. Gr. angel”. This is the historical author’s wording, including its language abbreviations and any proposed interpretation. It is presented as historical evidence, not as a verified modern translation. Victorian classifications and root explanations can differ from later linguistic research.

For Anjela, the current short meaning therefore remains unconfirmed. Establishing its modern etymology requires a current reference that documents the exact form and its relationship to the proposed earlier words.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 587 girls were recorded with the name Anjela between 1964 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 31 in 2005; its best national rank was #4,249 in 1970.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #15,303 in 2020 to #15,132 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Anjela?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#15,132
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anjela sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anjela. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anjelas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anjela was born before 1996 — so the typical Anjela is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
30.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
40.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
587
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2000s — 30.0% of all recorded uses (176).

Is Anjela rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−2,864
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+171
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
16.1%
Peak was 2005 (31)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,249
1970

Spellings of Anjela

Anjela is not the most common spelling — Angela is, with 71.2% against Anjela's 0.06%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Anjela is used

Across 1910–2025, Anjela was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 725,479 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Anjela has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Anjela around the world

Where Anjela ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1977–2021
    #6,736
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1982–1982
    #670
    in 1982

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Anjela by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,132
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 171
Best rank ever
#4,249
1970
Peak year
2005
31 that year
First recorded
1964
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
587
Count in 2025
5

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Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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