Angelica

“Variant of Angela — Messenger, angel” — Greek via Latin origin

Girl's name · #708 in the US (2025) · 90s

Angelica's best rank, #97, came in 1996; it has stepped well back to #708 today. Roughly 93,000 girls have been named Angelica since 1892.

Around the world: about 1 in 2,700 girls in Norway (2025) · about 1 in 5,100 girls in Canada (2024) · about 1 in 6,700 girls in Sweden (2025).

Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 30 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Famous Angelicas

Angelica Kauffmann — Swiss artist (1741–1807)
Angelica Singleton Van Buren — First Lady of the United States
Angélica Rivera — Mexican singer, model and telenovela actress (born 1969)
Angelica Balabanoff — Russian-Jewish-Italian dissident writer, social activist, politician, editor
Angélica Vale — Mexican actress

Among 432 notable people named Angelica:

Entertainers appear 1.9× more often than among typical names — e.g. Angélica Rivera, Mexican singer, model and telenovela actress (born 1969).

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