Angie
Meaning
diminutive of Angela, from Greek 'angelos' meaning messenger
The story
Angie is a diminutive of Angela and other names beginning with Ang, and Angela runs back through the medieval Latin Angelus to the Greek angelos, "messenger". The American record shows a name that has been working for over a century: about 540 girls in the 1890s, about 2,250 in the 1940s, about 13,000 in the 1960s and about 13,800 in the 1970s. Behind the Name credits the 1973 Rolling Stones song Angie with a jump in popularity; the ledger shows the name already working at full scale in those same years. About 8,300 girls came in the 2000s, about 5,400 in the 2010s, and about 2,530 so far this decade. A messenger at the root, a ballad in the middle, and a century of steady work on the books.
The formal names behind Angie
Angie is an established short form of each of these names.
Angela · Greek origin · messenger, angel
Angelica · Italian origin · angelic (a common Filipino Catholic name)
Angie around the world
One shared root links 10 names across 4 languages.
Shared root: from Greek angelos "messenger", the church's angel made a given name across the Romance languages
The constellation
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Angie in song
Angie
The Rolling Stones (1973)
A tender acoustic breakup ballad that gave the Stones a number one hit. People have argued for fifty years about who Angie was, and Keith Richards finally said he just picked the name out of the air.
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Angie peaked in the 2000s.
See popularity in Brazil
Popularity in Brazil
395 people · the #15,725 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 500,000 · median age 26
Among people named Angie living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1990s than in any other decade.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
When you meet Angie
People given the name Angie in the United States span the generations: the middle half were born anywhere from 1960 to 2009. Age is the one thing the name won't tell you.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
The Angie deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Angie truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Angie fits with your family’s names and surname.
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