"the islands"
The name Argelia is commonly a female name from the "" origin that means "the islands".
Argelia is the Spanish name for the country Algeria, and it is used as a feminine given name in Spanish-speaking countries. The Spanish place name goes back to Arabic al-Jaza'ir, usually explained as "the islands", a reference to the small islands off the coast of Algiers. The given name is therefore a place-name usage: its content is the country name itself rather than a separate vocabulary meaning.
The pronunciation of Argelia is ar-JEE-lee-uh.
