Angelina

Angelina is Italian through and through, a diminutive of Angela derived from the Greek angelos, messenger. Four lilting syllables suggest Renaissance frescoes, opera librettos, and afternoons spent near a piazza fountain. The name has been quietly loved across Italy, Russia, and Latin America for centuries, and Angelina Jolie pushed it firmly into American consciousness in the early 2000s, when it climbed into the top 50. It has since settled into the low 300s, still musical, still dressed for the occasion. A name that arrives with its own melody already humming.