Angela

Proper noun

Angela

1. A female given name from Ancient Greek.
   • Faire Angela (quoth she) men do her call, / No whit lesse faire, then terrible in fight: / She hath the leading of a Martiall / And mighty people, dreaded more then all / The other Saxons, which do for her sake / And love, themselves of her name Angles call.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 56
   • And the child was named Angela for the Angelus which rang the midnight hour, the New Year, the minute of her coming and because she was a little angel anyway.
     ibid., page 39:
     The man says his name is Mr. Dimino and that's his wife, Angela, behind the counter. I tell him that's my mother's name. No...1996, Frank McCourt, chapter I, in Angela's Ashes, HarperCollins., →ISBN, page 5