Angelique

Where Angelique comes from

The dictionaries list Angelique as a given name — a female given name from French anglicized from French Angélique, occasionally used in English since the 20th century — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1915
    First appearance
    #4,274 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1951
    Angelique Rockas born
    South African Greek actress, producer, artistic director of Internationalist Theatre, and activist
  3. 1970
    Peak, #301
    942 babies named Angelique — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1978
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #458.
  5. 1988
    Angelique Kerber born
    German tennis player
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from French anglicized from French Angélique, occasionally used in English since the 20th century.
Namesakes
  • Angelique Rockas · South African Greek actress, producer, artistic director of Internationalist Theatre, and activist, born 1951
  • Angelique Kerber · German tennis player, born 1988
  • Angelique Boyer · French born Mexican actress and model, born 1988
  • Angelique Widjaja · Indonesian tennis player, born 1984
  • Angelique Cabral · American actress, born 1979

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.