Angie's Notebook puts her name front and center, written in flowing script across a soft watercolor apple blossom design.
Angie is a diminutive of Angela and other names beginning with Ang, says Behind the Name. Angela is the feminine form of Angelus, from the Greek for “messenger” or angel. Wikipedia adds that Angie can also shorten Angelina, Angus, Angelo or the unisex Angel. Behind the Name notes that the 1973 Rolling Stones song “Angie” helped the short form jump in popularity.
Behind the Name links Angie with Angela, Angelina, Angel and Ange among related forms. Ang is a further short clip. Angela is the usual formal name when Angie needs to look grown-up on a resume.
Angie Harmon, born Angela Michelle Harmon on August 10, 1972, is an American actress. Wikipedia says she won Seventeen’s modeling contest in 1987 at age 15, appeared on magazine covers including Cosmopolitan and Esquire, starred in Baywatch Nights (1995 to 1997), played Abbie Carmichael on Law & Order (1998 to 2001) and later starred as Jane Rizzoli on TNT’s Rizzoli & Isles.
Angie is a 1970s nickname-name. US Social Security data has it at 193rd in the 1970s, when more than 13,700 American girls were named Angie. Behind the Name no longer lists a recent US ranking for Angie alone. The Stones ballad and the Angela boom of mid-century America both fed that decade’s peak.
A rock ballad pushed Angie up the charts. Behind the Name says the 1973 Rolling Stones song “Angie” caused the short form to jump in popularity, a rare case of a single helping a nickname onto birth certificates. Angela itself comes from the Greek for messenger, so the song sat on an older angelic root.
Any Angie, of any age. The 6" x 9" size is roomy enough for proper writing and small enough for a handbag or school bag. With 160 plain lined pages there’s no fixed layout, so it can be a diary, a gratitude journal, a study notebook, a recipe book or a home for to-do lists. Notebooks tend to multiply in drawers, but one with her name on the front is instantly hers.
There’s something about seeing your own name in print. It makes a notebook feel like it belongs to you, which is a good reason to fill it. It also means Angie can pick hers out of a pile in a second, at school, at work or on the kitchen counter.
How big is Angie’s Notebook? About the size of a trade paperback book: 6 x 9 inches (15.2 x 22.9 cm), 160 lined pages.
Where do I buy it? It’s sold on Amazon in the US, Australia and the UK. Amazon prints and ships each copy and handles delivery and returns.
Do you have other names? Yes, the same apple blossom design comes in hundreds of girls’ names. Start at all name notebooks or our personalized name notebooks guide.
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