Agnola: Name Meaning, Origin & Popularity

At a Glance: Name: Agnola – Meaning: messenger – Origin: Venetian/Tuscan dialect (variant of Angela) – Gender: Girl – Pronunciation: ahn-YOH-lah


Agnola is a Venetian/Tuscan dialect (variant of Angela) girl's name meaning “messenger”. It appears in our list of 200+ Beautiful Baby Girls Names That Start with A.

Meaning & Origin of Agnola

Meaning: Messenger.

Origin: Venetian/Tuscan dialect (variant of Angela).

A common claim: Agnola is often assumed to share Agnes's meaning, 'pure' (with the 'lamb' association from Latin 'agnus'). Actually: Agnola isn't a form of Agnes — it's a dialectal form of Angela, from Greek 'angelos' (messenger), so the 'pure/lamb' meaning doesn't apply.

How to Pronounce Agnola

Phonetic: ahn-YOH-lah   IPA: /aɲˈɲɔː.la/

Popularity of Agnola

Agnola doesn’t appear in U.S. Social Security birth records, which include every name given to at least five babies in a year — so it’s rare in the U.S.

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