Name in Japanese A Angelina

Angelina in Japanese

アンジェリーナ
Katakana
アンジェリーナ
Hiragana
あんじぇりーな
Romaji (Hepburn)
Anjerīna

This is the established spelling used for Angelina in Japanese dictionaries, books and media.

How Angelina sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

A
N
ジェ Je
リー
Na

Full reading: Anjerīna

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Why Angelina is written in katakana

In Japanese, foreign names are written in katakana — the angular script reserved for words borrowed from other languages. So on a form, a name tag, a delivery slip or a news article in Japan, Angelina appears as アンジェリーナ. This is the correct and respectful way a non-Japanese name is represented; it is not a kanji "translation". A Japanese reader sees アンジェリーナ and immediately reads it by its sound, Anjerīna.

Katakana is a syllabary, so English sounds are fitted to the nearest Japanese syllables and every consonant (except ん) is followed by a vowel. That is why Angelina becomes アンジェリーナ rather than a letter-for-letter copy. More than one katakana spelling can be reasonable for the same name, which is why we flag whether a spelling is a long-established one or a natural default.