Entry № 686 · English origin

Anjelica Anjelica — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ an-JEL-ih-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Angelic (Anjelica Huston, Academy Award winner)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "angelic (anjelica huston, academy award winner)".

Anjelica is the American variant of Angelica — from the Latin angelicus (angelic) — also the name of the herb that medieval monks attributed to the archangel Raphael. Long romantic partner of Jack Nicholson (1973-1990). Anjelica Hill — The Hill news commentator. The name Angelica is also the heroine of Orlando furioso (1532) by Ariosto.

Subject of countless Hollywood-dynasty profiles.

Angelic (Anjelica Huston, Academy Award winner) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Anjelica
Transliteration
Anjelica
Pronunciation
/ ænˈdʒɛl.ɪ.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Anjelica stands.

Anjelica does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Anjelicas before her.

Real people
Anjelica Huston
American Oscar actress.
born 1951
In fiction
Morticia Addams
The Addams Family.
1991

Names connected to Anjelica.

The number behind Anjelica.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Anjelica reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.