Angelica (given name)
Angelica is an English language surname and female given name and a variant of Angelika or vice versa.[1]
Meaning
Angelica comes from the Latin angelicus ("angelic"), which in turn is descended from the Greek Script error: No such module "Lang". (ángelos) meaning "messenger of God" or "angel".[1] Its male counterpart is Angelico.[2]
As a surname
Angelica is also a surname with similar meaning and was historically found mostly in the UK, US, and Canada. It was reported that they had a relatively low life expectancy of under 50 years. [2]
Variations
Angélica (Portuguese), Angelika (German, Polish), Angelika (Indonesian), Angyalka, Angyal (Hungarian), Angélique (French), Anjelica, Angelica (Italian, Indonesian, Spanish, English), Anxélica (Galician), Angeliki or Aggeliki (Script error: No such module "Lang"., Greek), Anxhelika (Albanian), Anzhelika (Russian).[1]
Notable Angelicas
Historical
- Angelica Agurbash (born 1970), Belarusian singer and former model
- Angélica de Almeida (born 1965), Brazilian long-distance runner
- Angélica Aragón (born 1953), Mexican film and telenovela actress
- Angelica Balabanoff (1878–1965), Ukrainian Jewish-Italian socialist
- Angellica Bell (born 1976), British television and radio presenter
- Angelica Bella (active on 1990s), Hungarian pornographic actress
- Angelica Bengtsson (born 1993), Swedish pole vaulter
- Angelica Bridges (born 1970), American actress
- Angelica Burevik (born 1958), Swedish association footballer
- Aggeliki Daliani (born 1979), Greek actress
- Angelica Garcia (born 1972), American Latin pop star from the 1990s
- Angelica Garnett (1918–2012), British writer, painter and artist
- Angelica Generosa, American ballet dancer
- Angélica Gorodischer (1928–2022), Argentine writer
- Angelica Guerrero-Cuellar, American politician
- Angelica Hale (born 2007), American singer
- Angelica Hamilton (1784–1857), the second child and the first daughter of Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton and Alexander Hamilton
- Angelica Hicks (born 1992), British artist
- Anjelica Huston (born 1951), American actress
- Angeliki Karapataki (born 1975), Greek water polo player
- Angelica Kauffman (1741–1807), Swiss painter
- Angélica Ksyvickis (born 1973), Brazilian TV personality.
- Angélica Kvieczynski (born 1991), Brazilian rhythmic gymnast
- Angélica Larrea (born 1944), Afro-Bolivian ceremonial queen
- Angelica Lopez (born 2000), Filipina model and beauty pageant titleholder
- Angelica Mandy (born c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".), English actress
- Angélica María (born 1944), Mexican actress and singer
- Angelica Martinelli (fl. 1578), Italian actress
- Angelica Panganiban (born 1986), Filipina actress and model
- Angelica Schuyler Church (1756–1814), member of American Schuyler family
- Aggeliki Tsiolakoudi (born 1976), Greek javelin thrower
- Angélica Vale (born 1975), Mexican-American actress
- Angelica Van Buren (1818–1877), daughter-in-law of the 8th United States President
- Mother Angelica (Rita Antoinette Rizzo, 1923–2016), American Roman Catholic nun and founder of the Eternal Word Television Network
- American wrestler Lita, whose ring name once was Angelica
Fictional
- Angelica is a princess of Cathay in Orlando innamorato (1483–1495) and Orlando Furioso (1516–1532)
- Angelica Jones, real name of Marvel's hero Firestar
- Angelica Pickles (active since 1991) is a cartoon character from the American animated series Rugrats, and the show's spin-off Rugrats: All Grown Up
- Angelica Button, a fictional child character from The Simpsons
References
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