Popularity of the name Angela, 1880–2025
Angela was at its most popular in 1975, when 23,361 girls were given the name: about 1 in 62 girls born in the U.S. that year, ranking #5. In 2025, 765 girls were named Angela, ranking #408. In all, Social Security counts 673,257 girls named Angela since 1880. Social Security’s records also list 2,135 boys named Angela.
- Peak year
- 1975
- Rank in 1975
- #5
- Babies in 1975
- 23,361
- Rank in 2025
- #408
- Total since 1880
- 673,257
Where it stands now
Over the last ten years it has slipped from #220 in 2015 to #408 in 2025, with 1,492 girls named Angela in 2015 and 765 in 2025.
Decade by decade
Angela ranked highest in the 1970s, at #7, with 225,262 girls given the name that decade. It ranked #432 in the 1880s and #274 in the 2020s so far.
Every 20 years in the records: 7 in 1880 (#679), 107 in 1900 (#327), 665 in 1920 (#255), 726 in 1940 (#234), 8,683 in 1960 (#50), 17,969 in 1980 (#12), 3,828 in 2000 (#79) and 1,190 in 2020 (#251).
Highs and lows
The most girls given the name in a single year was 25,901, in 1971. That is not its peak year: Social Security’s records hold more girls for 1971 than for 1975, so the name’s share of births was smaller. Its best rank in any year was #5, first reached in 1974.
Every year
The table lists every year from 1880 to 2025 in which Social Security recorded at least 5 girls named Angela, with the name’s rank that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 7 | #679 |
| 1881 | 9 | #582 |
| 1882 | 24 | #360 |
| 1883 | 22 | #397 |
| 1884 | 20 | #449 |
| 1885 | 18 | #500 |
| 1886 | 24 | #439 |
| 1887 | 33 | #372 |
| 1888 | 33 | #431 |
| 1889 | 42 | #371 |
| 1890 | 45 | #373 |
| 1891 | 29 | #475 |
| 1892 | 63 | #335 |
| 1893 | 67 | #327 |
| 1894 | 64 | #345 |
| 1895 | 70 | #342 |
| 1896 | 60 | #370 |
| 1897 | 95 | #298 |
| 1898 | 98 | #317 |
| 1899 | 80 | #336 |
| 1900 | 107 | #327 |
| 1901 | 89 | #317 |
| 1902 | 116 | #291 |
| 1903 | 132 | #267 |
| 1904 | 124 | #286 |
| 1905 | 148 | #270 |
| 1906 | 123 | #301 |
| 1907 | 174 | #261 |
| 1908 | 183 | #260 |
| 1909 | 204 | #248 |
| 1910 | 260 | #239 |
| 1911 | 292 | #231 |
| 1912 | 398 | #223 |
| 1913 | 447 | #228 |
| 1914 | 590 | #212 |
| 1915 | 698 | #225 |
| 1916 | 716 | #229 |
| 1917 | 742 | #226 |
| 1918 | 721 | #238 |
| 1919 | 654 | #251 |
| 1920 | 665 | #255 |
| 1921 | 671 | #255 |
| 1922 | 641 | #258 |
| 1923 | 666 | #249 |
| 1924 | 600 | #267 |
| 1925 | 560 | #281 |
| 1926 | 572 | #278 |
| 1927 | 601 | #272 |
| 1928 | 621 | #259 |
| 1929 | 676 | #233 |
| 1930 | 639 | #244 |
| 1931 | 619 | #242 |
| 1932 | 608 | #252 |
| 1933 | 577 | #252 |
| 1934 | 627 | #250 |
| 1935 | 618 | #252 |
| 1936 | 595 | #253 |
| 1937 | 784 | #214 |
| 1938 | 717 | #233 |
| 1939 | 734 | #229 |
| 1940 | 726 | #234 |
| 1941 | 822 | #215 |
| 1942 | 1,016 | #201 |
| 1943 | 933 | #215 |
| 1944 | 1,008 | #200 |
| 1945 | 1,057 | #193 |
| 1946 | 1,278 | #192 |
| 1947 | 1,648 | #176 |
| 1948 | 1,801 | #158 |
| 1949 | 1,967 | #150 |
| 1950 | 2,057 | #148 |
| 1951 | 2,137 | #150 |
| 1952 | 2,642 | #134 |
| 1953 | 3,185 | #120 |
| 1954 | 3,543 | #118 |
| 1955 | 3,893 | #109 |
| 1956 | 5,034 | #93 |
| 1957 | 5,326 | #89 |
| 1958 | 5,768 | #83 |
| 1959 | 6,772 | #68 |
| 1960 | 8,683 | #50 |
| 1961 | 10,843 | #38 |
| 1962 | 11,664 | #36 |
| 1963 | 13,277 | #30 |
| 1964 | 16,256 | #22 |
| 1965 | 18,754 | #10 |
| 1966 | 18,532 | #9 |
| 1967 | 19,555 | #7 |
| 1968 | 20,670 | #7 |
| 1969 | 21,060 | #7 |
| 1970 | 24,929 | #6 |
| 1971 | 25,901 | #6 |
| 1972 | 23,561 | #6 |
| 1973 | 20,898 | #7 |
| 1974 | 22,803 | #5 |
| 1975 | 23,361 | #5 |
| 1976 | 22,038 | #5 |
| 1977 | 20,998 | #6 |
| 1978 | 20,517 | #7 |
| 1979 | 20,256 | #8 |
| 1980 | 17,969 | #12 |
| 1981 | 15,924 | #15 |
| 1982 | 15,002 | #16 |
| 1983 | 13,219 | #22 |
| 1984 | 11,291 | #26 |
| 1985 | 10,227 | #31 |
| 1986 | 9,267 | #33 |
| 1987 | 8,583 | #35 |
| 1988 | 7,914 | #38 |
| 1989 | 7,199 | #47 |
| 1990 | 6,666 | #52 |
| 1991 | 5,802 | #59 |
| 1992 | 5,078 | #69 |
| 1993 | 4,572 | #73 |
| 1994 | 4,414 | #81 |
| 1995 | 4,119 | #85 |
| 1996 | 3,867 | #90 |
| 1997 | 3,652 | #93 |
| 1998 | 3,369 | #100 |
| 1999 | 3,632 | #90 |
| 2000 | 3,828 | #79 |
| 2001 | 3,915 | #77 |
| 2002 | 3,714 | #83 |
| 2003 | 3,320 | #104 |
| 2004 | 3,163 | #105 |
| 2005 | 2,897 | #113 |
| 2006 | 2,926 | #114 |
| 2007 | 2,756 | #125 |
| 2008 | 2,542 | #132 |
| 2009 | 2,258 | #142 |
| 2010 | 1,917 | #160 |
| 2011 | 1,679 | #189 |
| 2012 | 1,641 | #193 |
| 2013 | 1,651 | #196 |
| 2014 | 1,737 | #191 |
| 2015 | 1,492 | #220 |
| 2016 | 1,511 | #214 |
| 2017 | 1,352 | #234 |
| 2018 | 1,242 | #265 |
| 2019 | 1,272 | #257 |
| 2020 | 1,190 | #251 |
| 2021 | 1,282 | #234 |
| 2022 | 1,323 | #226 |
| 2023 | 1,214 | #255 |
| 2024 | 1,123 | #281 |
| 2025 | 765 | #408 |
How these numbers are counted
Social Security publishes, for every year since 1880, how many babies of each sex were given each name, counting any name given to at least 5. A name’s rank is its place that year among names for the same sex, by number of babies. Names with the same count share a rank here, while Social Security’s own lists break ties alphabetically, so a rank can differ from theirs by a place or two. A name’s share is the number of babies given it divided by all babies of that sex in the data that year, and its peak is the year that share was highest. Shares rather than counts set the peak, because far more babies were born in some years than others: counting babies alone would pull nearly every name’s peak toward the 1946–1964 baby boom.
Source: the U.S. Social Security Administration’s national baby name data, from Social Security card applications for babies born in the U.S. A name is left out of a year when fewer than 5 babies of one sex got it, and counts before about 1937 are incomplete, because many people born then never applied for a card. See how Baby Boom builds its data. Figures may contain errors.