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Angelica
Say it: an-JEH-lee-kah
Meaning
From Latin angelica 'angelic'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1990s
In the United States
- 91,205 babies given this name since 1892
- At its height in 1996, about 1 in 515 girls
- 506 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
Famous bearers
- Angelica, heroine of Ariosto's Orlando furioso
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Where this comes from
- Well-known works of literature
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
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