Angela
Gender: Feminine
Origin: English, Italian, German, Dutch, Romanian, Slovene, Slovak, Russian
Other Scripts: Ангела (Russian)
Pronounced: AN-jəl-ə (English), ahn-JEL-ah (Italian)
Feminine form of Angelus (see ANGEL). As an English name, it came into use in the 18th century.

Maria
Gender: Feminine
Origin: French, Czech, German, English
Pronounced: ma-REE (French), mah-REE (German)
French, Czech and German form of Maria (see MARY). A notable bearer of this name was Marie Antoinette, the queen of France who was executed by guillotine during the French Revolution. Another was Marie Curie, a physicist and chemist who studied radioactivity with her husband Pierre.

Fong
Origin: Chinese