Given name · also Italian
Mariangela
Mariangela is a feminine given name from Italian, ultimately from Spanish. It is used in English and Italian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Mariangela comes from Italian, and ultimately from Spanish.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Italian Mariangela, from Portuguese Mariângela, from Spanish Mariángela, built from English Mary + Angela.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1957. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mariangela through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 354
- 0 boys · 354 girls
- Most popular year
- 2007
- 39 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #12,706 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 12,706 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 39 in 2007. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 740 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Mariangela’s family of names
In Italian usage, Mariangela shares a linguistic root with the French form Marie-Ange. In English usage, Mariangela was borrowed from the Portuguese form Mariângela. In Italian usage, Mariangela has a conventional equivalent in the French form Marie-Ange.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Mariangela
- Mariangela MelatoItalian theatre, film and television actress (1941–2013)
- Mariangela GiordanoItalian actress (1937–2011)
- Mariangela PerrupatoItalian synchronized swimmerborn 1988
- Mariangela PiancastelliItalian basketball player (born 1953)
- Mariangela LisantiAmerican scientistborn 1983
- Mariangela HungriaBrazilian researcher and microbiologistborn 1958
- Mariangela BonanniVenezuelan modelborn 1988
- Mariangela DemurtasItalian singerborn 1981
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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