THE MEANING & THE CONTEXT
The story behind Angelica
Angelica is recorded as a female given name in Tagalog. The source gives a linguistic connection through English, specifically the form Angelica.
Pronunciation & syllables
Dictionary readings are kept by language. Select the reading that matches your intended pronunciation. Dots show the source’s written divisions; they are not a universal syllable count across languages.
Tagalog
- /ʔanˈd͡ʒelika/Standard-Tagalog
- [ʔɐn̪ˌd͡ʒɛː.lɪˈx̠a]Standard-Tagalog
- /ʔanˈdjelika/no palatal assimilation
- [ʔɐn̪ˌd̪jɛː.lɪˈx̠a]no palatal assimilation
An · ge · li · ca4 source divisions
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Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
TagalogEtymology & source
Borrowed from English Angelica.
a female given name from English
Wiktionary: Angelica (Tagalog) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
EnglishEtymology & source
Church Italian Angelica, from Latin angelica or a Latinate elaboration of Angela. Name of a heroine in Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (1516).
A female given name from Italian.
Wiktionary: Angelica (English) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Source accounts remain in their original English; editorial summaries and filters are adapted. Attribution and downloads
People with the name Angelica
Public figures and other documented namesakes linked by an explicit given-name claim. This is a selection of records, not a popularity ranking.
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Angel Locsin
Philippine actress (born 1985)
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Angelica Panganiban
Filipino actress
The record establishes the name association, not the person’s intended meaning, pronunciation or ancestry. Descriptions are attributed to Wikidata contributors (CC0).
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
1
eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗Wikidata
10
distinct person records with an explicit given-name claim
Community-edited coverage, not a census or birth registry. Examples: Angel Locsin, Angelica Panganiban
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Angelica in the birth records
Exact spelling, stated year, published top-ten tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Available publications: 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. No 2021 count is inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Related forms & spellings
Related forms may have their own language histories. They are not included in this spelling’s PSA count.
Similar names to Angelica
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Angelia♀Name formation documented in dictionary sources
- Angelika♀Given name documented in Philippine-linked records; lexical meaning not established here
- Angelina♀Name formation documented in dictionary sources
- Angelita·Recorded Philippine given-name form
- Angela♀Name formation documented in dictionary sources
- Ángela♀Name formation documented in dictionary sources
- Angeline♀Name formation documented in dictionary sources
- Angelino♂From Spanish, equivalent to English Angelino
What rhymes with Angelica?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Recorded combinations with Angelica
1 source-reported compound forms include this name as a component. Each part keeps its own history.
Names in this collection
Explore combinations →Explore Angelica further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wikidata given-name item Q838790 — Angelica (opens in a new tab)
Given-name identity, native labels, language associations and explicit class where present; not lexical meaning or population frequency.
- Wikidata — Angel Locsin (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q838790 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wikidata — Angelica Panganiban (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q838790 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wiktionary contributors — Angelica (Tagalog) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Wiktionary contributors — Angelica (English) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.