Angula
surname · Swahili · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Angula is a surname, most frequently recorded in the United States. In Namibia it is the 7th most common surname. It appears chiefly in Swahili and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: elver, baby eel.
- NANamibia1 in 344◐
- KEKenya1 in 502K
- NGNigeria1 in 1.9M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈17 ●
- Sources
- 27 ●
- 1 in 78M ◐
across 1 country
571 records
Official registry-verified
India
Meaning & origin●
elver, baby eel
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 123 | 134 rec. | — | 6 | Angula | 27 |
| NA Namibia | #7 | 92 | 305 rec. | — | 11K | Angula | 20 |
| KE Kenya | — | 76 | 8 rec. | — | — | Angula | 6 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 38 | 69 rec. | — | — | Angula | 9 |
| IN India | — | 17△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 78M | 17 | — | 3 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 11 | 11 rec. | — | — | Angula | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 8 | 6 rec. | — | — | Angula | 8 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 8 | 8 rec. | — | — | Angula | 5 |
| CL Chile | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Swahili35728%
- English35128%
- Spanish24119%
- Hindi897%
- 605%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Swahili | 357 | 28% |
| English | 351 | 28% |
| Spanish | 241 | 19% |
| Hindi | 89 | 7% |
| 60 | 5% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Angula is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In lua, to find by accident and pick up, take up.
as a wordGrammar and Dictionary of the Buluba-Lulua Language
In Quechua, alternative spelling of Anqula: Angola (a country in Southern Africa)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, second-person singular present active imperative of angulō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, corner
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, pilsēta Indijā (Angul), Orisas štatā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1964 | 6 |
| 1965 | 6 |
| 1966 | 10 |
| 1970 | 6 |
| 1973 | 7 |
| 1975 | 6 |
| 1977 | 6 |
| 1980 | 6 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 8 years between 1964–1980. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Nahas Angulab. 1943NANamibian Prime Minister
- Helmut Angulab. 1945NANamibian politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NA Namibia | This page provides an overview of Namibian surnames and their origins, published by the Namibia Statistics Agency. | 2026 | 11K | #12 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 17 | #86,693 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 10 | #95,564 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1966 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1973 | 7 | — |
| NA Namibia | ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates | 2025 | 6 | #23 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1980 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1977 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1975 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1970 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1965 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1964 | 6 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 31 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Angula?
- We estimate roughly 17 people bear Angula (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
- In which country does Angula have the most bearers?
- Angula is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled angula.
- How common is Angula compared with other names?
- In Namibia, Angula is the 7th most common surname of 642 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Angula mean?
- Recorded meaning: elver, baby eel
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Angula” — the 7th most common surname in Namibia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.