Angelica

Where Angelica comes from

Church Italian Angelica, from Latin angelica or a Latinate elaboration of Angela. Name of a heroine in Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (1516).
— Wiktionary's entry for Angelica
  • Italian
  • Vowel-ended
Angelica through the years
  1. 1892
    First appearance
    #1,450 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1996
    Peak, #97
    3,404 babies named Angelica, the most in any year.
  3. 2006
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #206.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Italian.
Namesakes

No widely recognized namesakes for Angelica in Wikidata.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.