How to delay AngularJS App Initialization?

The problem was that I had left the ng-app directive in the html tag, which tells Angular to auto-initialize that scope. Removing it allowed my manual initialization to run correctly.

as Chris mentioned, it can be done with angular.bootstrap and not mentioning the ng-app:

<div id="appArea" ng-controller="someCtrl">
  {{name}}
</div>

    <script>
    angular.module('someApp', [])
    .controller('someCtrl', function($scope) {
      $scope.name = "test name";
    })
    setTimeout(function() {
      angular.bootstrap(document, ['someApp']);
    }, 2000);
  </script>